The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-28
Place Entered at Night by Rebels,
pie and Preached Revolt.
LITTLE HOPE FOR SPANIARDS
UNLESS AGUINALDO PERMITS THEM
TO BOARD AMERICAN SHIPS.
Request of Gen. JaramillO Denied by
General Otis-FilipinOs Now Said to
BE Treating Prisoners Well.

MANILA. Sept IS, 10 a. m.-Generals
four regiments and a battery, advanced at
daybreak this morning upon Porac, about
eight miles northwest of Bacolor, in Pam
pang province.
MANILA, Sept. 27.-The American au-
thorities nave declined the request of Gen.
Jaramillo, the Spanish officer who is set
thing SPANS military affairs in the Philip
pines. TO send a vessel under the Spanish
flag to collect the Spanish prisoners at in
surgent ports, as stipulated by the Filipinos.
on the ground that the ports are closed,
that such a step, therefore,, would be un-
lawful. and because they declined to accept
the Fflipino's dictation. The authorities
are ready to send an American vessel. The
Spanish commission. therefore, will return
to the insurgent lines and endeavor to effect
an arrangement for the delivery of the pris-
oners on board an American vessel. Agui-
naldo has issued a statement saying the
warlike preparations of the Americans has
prevented the concentration of the prisoners
as intended, but that they will be delivered
up Oct. 10.
The insurgents are trying to incite the
VI ndidDOl a CITY VI oo'VV
tants, about five mics from Manila. to rise
against the Americans. Captain Allen has
been holding the place with two companies
Of the Sixth Infantry. but on account of
the need of all the available men at the
front, his force has been reduced to seventy
men. They now remain near the big church
where they are quartered, being too few in
number to attempt to patrol the town.
Armed uniformed partieS nf in oIrCQOfS re-
Gently disembarked from Cascoes during the
night, collected money for the insurrection
and preached revolt. Two mayors have been
elected, but both of them have declined to
serve. Malabon has been made the ship
ping point, whence provisions and other
stuff are brought from Manila by trains and
shipped into the hostile territory.
The insurgents seem to be trying to make
their good treatment of the American pris-
oners a card to gain outside sympathy. Two
Englishmen who have arrived here from
Tarlac report that the Americans are treat
ed more like guests than prisoners. They
are fed on the best that the country af-
fords and everything is done to gain their
favor. A Filipino paper says that on the
occasion of a recent fete at Vittoria, In
celebration of a mythical Filipino victory.
the American prisoners there were given the
freedom Of the town and five pesos each
with which to celebrate the victory" The
Englishmen also say the Filipinos lave Of
fered all the Americans commissions in the
army and that three of them accepted.
This Is not believed.
American officers north of Manila tell the
correspondents of the Associated Press that
Aguinaldo is attempting to enforce good
government after the American fashion, or
dering his soldiers to suppress a hand of
robbers, three of whom were executed at
Mariquina. He has also prohibited gam
bling in the villages under his control.
Palermo, the president of the so-called
Filipino Cabinet, has fallen into disfavor
among the Filipinos on account of his peace
proclivities. They suspect him of planning
to repeat his treachery of the former in
surrection, when he went over to the Span
iards, and they may expel him.
Aguinaldo has issued a decree inviting
Filipino deserters to return within a month,
in which case they will be pardoned.
The Tagals, of the island of Mindanao,
a expressed their readiness to accept
American sovereignty in exchange for pro-
lection against the harrassing Moros.
A native officer has offered Major General
Otis Loco Maccabebe tribesmen to fight
Tagals of the Laguna de Bay district.
The troops engaged in the fighting at
Cebu belonged to the Nineteenth Infantry
Sixth Infantry, T~wenty-third Infantry and
Sixth Artillery.