The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-29

wrapped up and packed In cases like furniture
He has seen German officers in the trenches
talking with Spanish officers. but was not clos,
enough to hear what was said. He was in the
infantry and does not know whether Germant
have given instruction to artlllerymen or not
He has heard that they have.
1t is the Archbishop who is really at the bot
tom OF the Spanish resistance. On that day
when the Americans destroyed tho Spanish
feet. Captain General Augustin caused the
white iag to be raised over Manila. This
Roviroso and his fellow soldiers we're ordered
TO be ready to march out and surrender. Ali
day they were ready and the white nag few,
but the Americans did not come. That night
Senor Don Ferruni Jaudenes, secundo odbo.
deposed Captain-Genera Augustin and as
sumed command. Tho white nag was hauled
down and the red and yellow Of CASTLE run up
again. Il was the Archbishop who brought
this about--that same Archbishop who. in
April. proclaimed that the Americans were raw
ishers and plundorers, whose sole object In at
lacking Manila was to loot, outrage and destroy.
When Jaudenes took command the order to be
ready to surrender was %rescinded, and resist
ance began in earnest. Now It Is desperate.
Buildings have been saturated with oil ready
for the torch. Parapets have been thrown up
and guns mounted outside the wall and on the
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which the Americans will have to march ifthey
take the city. Buildings have been destroyed
to give better chance to resist landing parties.
When Manila is taken It will be a city OF bones
and ashes. The Spaniards will die resisting
and their city shall never surrender.
How much OF this 10 true there is no telling.
From several different sources the oiled-build-
ings story has come. Natives VIII escape tell
Il. As for the dynamite. that is q case OF march,
ing Spanish prisoners ahead Of and with our
troops and let the spaniards kill their COM
rades IL they will. It is true that Jaudenes de-
posed AuRustin and assume command. 1t is
true that the white flag was up for hours. It is
true that the food supply is almost exhausted.
Il is true that as the spaniards retreat before
the insurgents they burn what they can. As to
the Germans. they have annoyed Admiral
Dewey In every way they could. as has been
told before. but 1t seems hardly likely that they
would 60 30 far as to land gum That is max
ing war. and Admiral Dewey has told the Cor
man Flag Lieutenant that the way to make
war is to clear ship and go at It.
Still we are not at the front. but the IL q dis
tinct advance. We have come three and o half
miles from ParafIaQuo. and that rice IL ready.
We walk through half Of Pineda and find the
It is much like the one in P~aranaQue-
Of them are, for that matter-but hot 80
We have not long to wait here. The
table is set at once upon our arrival. and again
the men sit down and the women wait and
watch. At one end Of the table several platters
heaped with pieces Of meat are set. The plates
are passed to the p~latters. woman picks up
3 piece Of meat with her fingers and puts It on
\ plate and starts It back up the line to its owner.
Rice she scoops out of q big platter with q spoon.
Before each man there is a small bow with q
lew s~poonfuls Of sailed and peppered coooanut
oil as dressing for the rice. The meat reeks OF
garlic, but we eat IL as fast as we can, for we
are In a hurry to get to the front, and the sun
slanting on the far side of Cavit6, we'll west
II us. The meat 10 fresh killed and tough.
but it is beef and nourishing. Then comes
plate Of liver and garlic and more rice. And
hen o plate OF fried chicken, with only q suG-
Zestion of garlic this time. II this keeps up We
hall all be Italians before we get Manila.
After the chicken mangoes-how good they are
a bananas. and a curious thick skinned
like an apple with Q terrible Togallo-na-
Cigarettes. cigars and betel nut. and-there
soes a bugle. We go to the windows and see a
OF Of barefooted soldiers stringinR along In
liam fashion to a big matched roof shed Just
cross the narrow alley-like street. Every
'ther man carries a big banana leaf. He is
lsing It as an umbrella. and we wonder why
III do not have them. The soldiers are going
o have a meal. says Noriel. and we must see
hem. So to the shed we 60. Then It appears
hat this shed really shelters n cockpit. Can it
70 that We are to have another cockhRht?
We begin to wonder II there is any front
nyway. or any fighting. or any war.
3ut the soldiers are getting their rice.
{ has been cooking for them in great earthen-
rare ~receptacles shaped like the fiat. broad
baskets the native women carry. The
with banana leaves divide them and
i've half Of each one to the soldiers who came
7ithout them. Each man sings his gun over
is shoulder. takes of his straw hat, lines the
with the banana leaf and scoops 1t full
rom the big pot. using his hands as spoons.
hen. holding the hat with one hand. he walks
bout scooping rice into his mouth with the
Their hand. They laugh and talk and are per-
ectly contented. 1t will be hard work to sub
ne men like them. Godsend we don't have IL
} dol
Now at last We make a move that has some
in it. We go back to the tribunal"
here our caromettas are waiting. We are
bout to get into the ramshackle liver regu-
tors when. bless my soull We get q surprise.
.oriel says we are at the front. For q minute
r two that fairly takes our breath away. then
o recover. and argument begins. It
tnaC Cner0 ii q IrOnJ mucn more war
Ike than this peaceful tribunal headquarters
18th Its silent Krupp gun. There are trenches
it'll men in them armed with rihes-Mausers.
lostly taken from the Spanish-and they are
aitinR patiently for the chance to shoot or cap
Ire more Spaniards. Moreover. the Spaniards
ave trenches not far from those occupied by the
and they are shooting all the time.
is very dangerous to 60 near the fighting
mes, and the General doesn't like to have the
merioans try 1t. We ask for figures Of Fill
mo losses in the trenches, and the General be-
rather r~eticent. Shooting there GER
Linly Is. as we can hear the rifles cracking all
le time. And here comes a boy shot through
le left hand. He was nearly half a mile be-
md the insurgent lines. walking down the
lad toward home when the bullet hit him
Q exhibits the hand rather proudly. and when
'erybody has examined 1t. goes into the tri-
NAL to find the doctor have It dressed. He
perhaps 10 years old. but a veteran.
This evidence OF danger makes some OF the
lrty a little shy. but most of us are for going
We hava ANNA q lon1 diatonoa hnao