The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-12
General Otis Alleged to Have Been
Criticised for Leaving Water Sup
ply at Mercy of the Rebels.
SITUATION is MOST GRAVE
ACCORDING TO GENERAL RIOS, THE
SPANISH COMMANDER.
lie Says, Is Determined to
Fight Before ReinfOrcements
Come from America.

LONDON, Jan. 12.-The Daily Mail pub
fishes the following dispatch from Hong
Kong: THE Americans who are arriving
here from Manila complain bitterly of the
inaction of Major General Otis, particularly
in leaving the Manila water supply at the
mercy of the rebels. They say collision
between the Americans and insurgents is
inevitable Aguinaldo's dispatches to the
Filipino Junto here have been stopped"
The Berlin correspondent of the Standard
says that Professor Blumentrtt Aguinal-
dos representative there, writes to the
Tagebatt as follows: THE Americans, be-
ing addicted to drink, are less able to fight
in the tropics than the sober Spaniards.
guerrilla war could be kept up for six or
eight years during which the inevitable
conflict between the powers in eastern Asia
would afford the Filipinos a chance. All the
Jesuits and Benedictnes are at liberty; only
the other orders have been kept prisoners.
The former are now pro-American, because
American rule offers the only hope of re-
trieving their fortunes. III treatment of
prisoners is severely punished, while nuns
are not molested, most of them being ma
tives. The Americans imagine they can
buy the insurgent army for So, 600, but the
Filipinos anticipate that an American army
Inspired ny w dSuluS lOu > SplIIl VIII COIlG
into power and grant them independence"
The Madrid correspondent of the Times
says: 1T is not to the advantage of Spain
that a settlement in the Philippines is de-
layed. The fact is fully realized that Span
ish shipping is suffering from the uncer-
tainty, as well as the interests of the re-
ligious orders, whose property is at stake
and many of whose members are prisoners.
1t is not true that the Spanish command
ers have been ordered to give the Americans
trouble. Spain desires to bury the Ratchet.
A scheme is being seriously discussed for
the government of the Philippines by an
international company or by three compa-
MES like the British South Africa Company,
which would be more acceptable to the ma
tives than the rule of the United States,
and would enable Spanish investments with
out loss of markets in the Archipelago"
Most of the morning papers comment to-
day upon the situation in the Philippines,
drawing the inference that Senator Fora
ker's remarks in the Senate chamber yester-
day were made by him as the spokesman of
the President and expressing disappoint-
ment and their disapproval of a possible
REIMBURSEMENT of the Philippines by the
United States The Times says that the
senator appears to leave the subject in an
unpleasantly ambiguous state. 1t is in the
Philippines that the new system of gov
eminent will be brought to a test and no
resolutions passed in the Senate can solve
the problem. The claims of the insurgents
to national recognition can hardly hold wa
ter, but there is no power in the world that
would be so much embarrassed by the rails
ing of a question of this sort as the United
States To announce that the occupation
of the Philippines is only temporary would
be scarcely prudent. Although some prece-
dents are furnished in our own policy dur
ing the last twenty years, the results are
unsatisfactory. All the governments of the
continent have acquiesced, willingly or I'M
willingly, in the fact that the islands, with
American acquisitions, and they are bound
to hold aloof except in the inconceivable
event of the failure of the American gov
eminent.
The Standard says: 1T is a little startling
to find the liberators of Cuba engaged in
suppressng a youthful republic which
claims the sacred right of self-government
Oft the coast of Asia for which naval sta
tons would scramble"
The Daily Chronicle says: 1--WE believe
that, so soon as it can safely be DONE the
United States will give che Fflipinos virtual
home rule under responsible government"
Foraker speech in the Senate, SAYS: After
this, the whole truth cannot long be de
layed and it will be awaited Gvith great in
terest on both sides of the Atlantic"