The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-11
MANILA HOLDS OUT.
spaninrds Hope To Keep City Until Peace
. is Declared.


Manila. August 8. via Hong Kong,
August 9.-Copyrighted 1898 by the Asso-
ciated Press. The rumor is current here
that the insurgents, fearful that peace
will be concluded between Washington
and Madrid, and that the Americans will
withdraw from the Philippines are the
more strenuous in their desires and efforts
to capture Manila Sunday night there
was heavy bombardment, with heavy
modern she'll
1t is generally believed in the city that
the Americans assisted and the papers
publish lists of Americans alleged to
have been killed including some names of
rank.
There is also a report that half the
Americans have sucuumbed to fever and
this misstatement with others like en-.
oourages the Spaniards to maintain the1l
suicidal resistance. ),
On Sunday many shots entered the
town. Several reached the citadel Itself
and it is reported that some ladies were
killed.
There was frightful panic inside the
walls. women and children shrleklng and
praying in their terror the whole night
through.
One shot caused twenty casualties at
the Luneta battery another explooeo ao
the Malate barracks, killing nve.
The troops turned out just IN tiine NJ, 10
save Malate fort and the magazine: Inc
insurgent guns showered large ana small
shots with such precision that the garrl-
son believed the whole American dfL'y
and fleet were concentrating their nre.
The total Spanish losses were propaply
q hundred and many houses were serlous-
~ damaged. ,,;ors
fusilade in every direction. Telephone
inouiries were sent out from headquarters
in various outposts. No answer was re-
oeiyed from I'll Pace, and accordingly a
squad of horsemen fastened tnltner. IN
the darkness the sentrles nreo ana
wounded two.
burned and the flames, driven by a
strong gale, threatened the whole OF
Manila. but they were finally ext1n-
guished mainly through the efforts OF the
fire brigade organized by the Brltlsh mer-
chants at Manila. 49,.
The British consul here dlea OF
dysentary yesterday. His body cannot he
buried in the Protestant cemetery on &C.
count of the insurgents.
| For four days typhoon has ragged. The
| suburbs have been flooded, the trenches
| swamDed and the sandbags dissolved.
Disease is raging. Mere boys of 10 years
of age are enlisting; they become officers
and fight in the trenches. The news
papers applaud what they should con-
| denim as q crime.
The British vice consul, supported by
the French consul, who is the dean of the
| foreign representatives here. took the
initiative in unofficial 'feelers,' looking
| to an armistice pending peace; but the
Americans are not authorized to accept
anything except surrender and the
| Spaniards will never surrender.
| The latter hope to endure until peace is
declarat between Washington and Madrid.
The hardships of the situation are press
| ing, chiefly upon the natives ana Iorelgn-
ers and not upon the Spaniards, because
the bulk of the priests, the officials and
the military can monopolize the food sup,
| the' population starve the fact goes
practically unheeded.
This correspondence has seen natives
eating rats and mice; and it is reported
that they are stealing food and murder
| ing.