The record-union., 1899-05-28

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Clearly the editor has read Creelman's
famous descriptions, aglow with sell
and falsehood and has not hesitated to
crib from them:
Hear the story of Calooean! Ana
hear it from one who, seated on the
outermost battlements of the ancient
city wall, with the distant din of deadly
conflict ringing in his ears, writes
hastily by the fading light of the setting
sun, as the triumphant army OF Fiji
pinos scours the country in pursuit OF
the panic-stricken and fugitive foe
On Saturday, February 18th, the Yam
Quis opened a fierce attack upon Caloo-
can, determined to regain their lost
prestige; bat our valiant Filipino troops,
who do not even know what fear Is,
drove them back easily, and chased
them far beyond their own lines. we
inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, put
they managed to scramble off with
their dead, leaving not single corpse
on the field, in order to deceive us.
They think that if we cannot find any
dead we shall feel discouraged, ana De
discredited among our own people. But
it is a fools game!
Minister of War Luna was on top or
Caloocan Church directing operations.
From time to time he proceeded to the
foremost lines inspecting the positions
noting the progress of events, and CIV
ing here and there a word of commen-
dation or admoiition Again and again
the Americans attempted to break
through our lines, but each attempt
was weaker than the preceding one. un-
til at last, enfeebled and utterly dis
pirited, they broke into complete and ig-
nominious rout The day was oursl
This proves how true it is, as we have
often stated, that the American pirates
and brigands are impotent, except when
they can obtain the aid Of treachery
among their enemies. On their own
efforts, they are nothing. Only by un-
derhand means can they attain even a
momentary semblance of success.
There is a report, well substantiated
on the evidence of numerous eye-Wit-
nesses, that an American General was
killed and another seriously II
not fatally wounded in the
Caloocan fight. Those who saw it,
however, did not know the names of
the Generals. 1t is also known that
very large number of officers are
among the slain. Filipinos who have
ccme here from Manila since the fight
say that the American losses are off1-
eially reported as over thousand, and
that the wounded are so numerous as
to seriously hamper the army and en-
culnber the whole city. They cannot be
accommodated in the hospitals on ac-
count of the prevalence of gangrene,
which is due to wretched hospital serv-
ice, and is rendering the hospital build
ings untenable, so that the sick and
wounded have to camp out permanently
in the field hospitals, which are only in
tended as receiving and forwarding
depots.
Quite the most grotesque thing in the
way of Filipino journalism, however. is
the statement in "Independencia' of
April 9TH that so great was the rush of
Filipinos to enlist under Aguinaldo' 5
banners that great numbers had to be
refused. This excess of applicants is
equal to the whole number Of those who
are enlisted such is the rush TO get into
the army, if we are to believe the news
paper. But in the same issue of that
paper appears with editorial applause
the statement that the Filipino COM
manders have decided to sunmarily ex-
ecute any Filipino who manifests an
unwillingEess to enlist.
But even that is discounted and laid
in the coolest of shades by the state
ment that the British Government hav-
ing decided to send the war ship Power
full to Dagupan to rescue some British
residents, "our government, always
anxious to be obliging to foreigners, will
mission Think one moment of the
idea of Aguinaldo with his war canoes
and tin plated fat boats refusing the
Powerful permission to go anywhere.
Let US for one moment reflect on what
might have tragically happened had
Aguinaldo refused the British war ship
permission to turn its Prov Dagupan-
ward?
But to cap the climax of absurdity
and crown the "Republica" as the chief
prince and king of testers, we have five
photographic bulletins in chronological
order, giving an account of the progress
of the battle of Polo April 4th. One of
these reads as follows:
3 p. m.-Some paltry American
ctf M launches (,Nrolao f1xy Mon n :
mock or the Monterey; might even be
the Oregon and the Olympia) tried to
make an attack ON Bahaypari, but after
firing a few shells they We're driven off
by our valiant defenders double quick.
Think of the Monadnock, the Oregon
and the Monterey being driven off by
Filipino sharpshooters and flying artil-
lery from the shore. Think of them be-
ing spoken of as ''paltry launches The
New York Tribune" has done the
translations of such accounts from the
Filipino press, and in giving them to
print as examples of the means em-
ployed by the insurgent leaders to keep
the Filipino mind in dense Ignorance OF
the truth.
1t has been contended that when a
person becomes so addicted to the use
of tobacco in the form of the cigarette
that what is known as the 'habit" is
fixed upon. him. he is irreclaimable.
But according to the Philadelphia
Medical Journal" of May 18th this is
has discovered that in the suggestive