The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-27
INSURGENTS MADE NO ATTACK.
REINFORCEMENTs WE'RE SENT TO
MAC ARTHUR, HOWEVER.

FiIfnino Leaders Becoming Desper-
ate-Steamer brings News of the
Flag Raising at Cebu-InsurGents
There Took Their Gums to the
housekeeping Quiet at uOilO.
ReDOrted Collision With the Ger
man Navy Is UnfOunded.
Manila, Feb. &c, noon.-Last night the
rshets concentrated in such numbers near
,be Chinese. cemetery that Gen. MacAr-
thur anticipated an attack and asked for
relnforcements.
Two companies of the Twenty-third
regulars were sent to Caloocan and a bat
talon of the Twentieth regulars to the
cemetery at about midnight.
But the expected attack was not made,
the rebels, after making great noise with
bugle calls and yells of Viva. Independent
cia"' and "Mucho Malo Americanos? ana
firing volleys, disappearing in the woods
II is believed their leaders are getting
desperate and are attempting to force the
United States troops to make an attack,
in the hope of breaking through the Amer
lean lines but the rebels are evidently I'M
willing to be sacrificed when facing the
Americans. 1t is just possible, however,
that they may be goaded into such move
before more reinforcements arrive.
Flag Raised in Cebu.
Manila, Feb. &c, $40 p. m--According to
advices brought this morning by the
steamer Neustra Sonora del Carmen,
whose arrival brought the news that the
American flag had been raised over the
island of Cebu, the United States gun
boat Petrol, Commander c. Cornwell, Wis
tied Cebu on Feb %.
Commander Cornwell sent an ultima
tum ashore, declaring the intention of the
Americans to take ossession-peaceably
if possible, by force if necessary. The re-
bells Immediately vacated, taking their
guns to the hills.
A party Of marines and blue jackets was
landed and the American flag was rails
ell by them over the government building,
which they still occupied when the Nels-
ira Sonora del Carmen left.
A battalion of the Twenty-thrd regulars
left for Cebu to-day by the United States
transport Pennsylvania.
No More Fighting at IIoiIO.
The same steamer brought dispatches
from Brig. Gen. Miller at Iloiio 20 Mai
there, that there had been no further
lighting, that confidence had beer restored
and business was being generally resumed
Gen. Miller thinks it probable that the
natives VIII soon be convinced of the err
ror OF opposing the inevitable, and that
the example set by the inhabitants of
Nesros is having its effect among the
other Islands, which, though not entirely
convinced, are, in Gen. Miller's opinion,
open to reason.
All Is quiet in the city last night, inside
ana outside of Manila, except near CaIoocan
"hefe the enemy's sharpshooters continue
70 annoy our troops at a comparatively
close range. One man of the Twentieth
hansas Volunteers was killed in Ariouina
.lllage which was burned last night. and
TOUR We're wounded in the skirtnish one
OF the Idaho, one of the Minnesota an1
TWO OF the Pennsylvania Volunteer Regi-
ments.
No Collision With Germany,
no such emergency exists here as is rem
issSntea by reports circulated in the Unit
20 States-and cabled back to Manila-to
tIe erect that Admiral Dewey has had a
ColIlsioh Of a forcible character with the
GERMAN naval commander.