The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-23
NOT FROM GEN. OTIS.
Some News the General Did Not Let
Correspondents Send.


Correspondents Send.
MANILA. Aug. 10, via Hong Kong. Aug.
22.-The Filipino rebels appear to retain
much more of a fighting spirit than might be
expected after their recent SAN Fernando
experiences and General Lawton's drubbings
in the South.
After giving up San Fernando with a fee
BILE struggle, they intrenched themselves at
Angeles, working for several days and i'm
pressing noncombatants into the work, thus
saving the armed men for the fighting. They
engaged Lieutenant Colonel Smiths regi-
ment and the artillery warmly for four
hours. making one of the most stubborn re-
sistances of the campaign. But the Ameri-
cans are indebted to the usual poor marks
manship of the Filipinos, as well as TO their
WI strategy, for their small losses.
In the Province of Cavite, where 1t was
supposed the rebels had been scattered and
demoralized beyond recuperation. they have
an army of several thousand
men, distributed among the important
towns from the lake TO the bay. After the
San Fernando engagement, the rebels at
tempted to deter the Americans from a
farther advance ~northward by menacing the
railroad communication. Several hundred of
General Pho del Pillars men crossed the Rio
Grand between the American outpost towns,
and threatened Baliuag, Quingua and other
places with small American garrisons, while
during Sunday and Monday night smaller
bands tried to tear up the railroad tracks
at several points between Bigaa and Malo-
los. Reinforcements Of American troops,
however. were sent along the railroad from
Manila to San Fernando, while the forces
at Baliuag and Quingua sailed out against
General Pho del Pillars men, and the rebels
were easily driven away. In brushes be-
tween these Fflipinos and the Americans
during the three days the Americans lost
several men. while the Filipino loss was
heavy.
OF these operations the Associated Press
correspondent was permitted to send only
an inadequate dispatch, dictated verbatim by
Major General Otis. The censor writes
stereotyped official phrases and adjectives
into the dispatches. tending to magnify the
American operations and to minimize the
opposition. General Otis says newspapers
are not public institutions, but private en-
terprises. and the correspondents are only
here on sufferance.
All reports from the rebel territory agree
that the scarcity of food is increasing. and
that the rebel commanders at APART and
other points refuse to obey Aguinaldo's or
der in regard to closing the ports held by
the rebels against American ships, and say
that any ship bringing stores will be well
coined. Several ships from Manila are now
at such ports.
Hundreds of people come into Manila
daily, and return to the rebel lines with food
and other commodities. The guards sta
toned along one road reported that five
thousand persons passed through the lines
in three days. and that $50 tons Of rice were
carried out in small parcels on the same
road in ten days. Much of this undoubtedly
goes to aid the rebels, but the authorities
toward the women and children, who are
undoubtedly suffering.
General Macarthur is establishing munic-
ipal governments in the villages north of
Manila. The mayor Of Baliuag, the first
town where General Lawton established the
same rule. who was supposed to be one Of
the most friendly and trustworthy of the
natives, has been placed in Jail, charged
with arranging with the rebels for an at
tack on the town The American troops
have been withdrawn from all that part of
the country, which was half cleared of reb-
els in the expedition of the Americans in
June last.
The rebels have returned to San Mateo,
which was abandoned for the third time
after its recent capture.
1t is alleged that more than half the
howitzer ammunition used during the fight
at Angeles was defective, and failed to ex-
plodo.