The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-08
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The decision regarding the protocol
| and the status quo in the Philippines
it is said, applies also to the case Of
Agoncillo and his agents in this coun-
try and in Canada. They are not citi-
zens of the United States dn rebellion
whatever easei they may be. AS mat
ter of fact, they are not giving the
Administration much concern, and arc
not receiving any particular attention
beyond being kept under surveillance
by the secret service men, so that
hands can be laid on them whenever
they are wanted. This latter contin-
gency applies, Of course, only to the
very lonely Filipinos remaining in
Washington, one sick and both very
badly scared.
/ AS to Agoncillo's statement in Mon
treal that he had gone there because
he could communicate better with his
| friends around Manila, it was pointed
| out to-day by the authorities having
control of the wires that Agoncillo will
be no better off in Montreal than he
was here, as the Manila censor will take
care of anything filed for him there,
although he, of course, can commune
cate with his friends in Hongkong.
4:30 p. m. = The Americans as this
dispatch is sent are in complete control
| OF the situation; their lines, extending
to Malabon on the north and to
Raranque on the south, are fully twenty
miles long. While a few detached bod
les of the enemy offer desultory opposi
ton, the main body of the rebels is in
| full retreat and utterly routed.
Of the hordes of troops originally
drawn up in battle array against the
Americans fully third are already
! incapacitated, and the rest are scat
tered in every direction.
s p. m.-There are many indications
that Manila is full of desperadoes who
had intended to cooperate with Aguin-
aldo. The police are continually cap
turing men and women with weapons
concealed in their clothing. The vigil
aice of the authorities in this respect
| is highly reassuring.
| Last Saturday about midnight two
Englishmen accidentally encountered a
gang of armed natives in a dark side
street. The natives, fearing discovery,
| imprisoned them until morning, and
threatened to kill them unless they
maintained silence. Many native clerks
employed by mercantile houses are
missing. AS it is impossible that they
should have passed the lines, the infer
ence is that they are in hiding in the
city
| Several attempts were made to assas-
siEate Americans on the Streets but
that danger is now at a minimum. The
natives are terribly cowed, and the pre-
cautions taken, especially against in
cendiarism, are admirable.
The rebels, who have been swept in
every direction, like peasants in bat
tie, die by the hundreds in the trenches,
for the most part passively, except the
Ygorotes, who charge desperately and
uselessly.
! The rebel prisoners declare that their
attack was unprecedented; that the
oltposts fired. and then everybody fol-
lowed, in accordance with a sort of gen.
teral understanding
Lieutenant Afford CA. T. Ford p. Com
pany I, " eatEeth Kansas Infantry,
and private of that company were
killed, and six other members of the
regiment were wounded near Caloocan
last evening while reconoitering. The
party was in jungle when it was at
tackled by the enemy
| Two companies of the Kansas regi-
ment We're sent to the relief of their
comrades, and drove the Filipinos into
Caloocan, penetrating to the very heart
of the town. Meanwhile the gunboats
shelled the suburbs
General Otis finally recalled the
troops, but the natives, misunderstand-
ing the retreat, failed to take advan-
tage of it. The outskirts of the town
| were burned.
The Americans now have the steamer
line to Malabon, and 600 marines, with
four Maxims, have been landed at Fleet
Beach, north of the city.
The Third Artillery, on the main road.
and the Utah battery, in a cemetery,
covered the advance of the Kansas
troops
Among the important points captured
was a strong embrasured earthwork
within sight of Caloocan.
There was considerable firing from
the upper windows of the houses in the
native quarter of the city last night,
but no casualties have been reported as
the result
The Signal Corps were compelled to
run their lines along the firing line
during the fighting, and consequently
there We're frequent Interruptions of
communication, owing to the cutting of
wires, and the signal men were ordered
to kill without any hesitancy any one
who attempted to interfere with the
lines.
,Aguinaldo, the rebel leader, issued
two prociamations on Saturday and
Sunday. The first declares that the
americans opened the firing, and calls
upon the Filipino Congress to suspend
the Constitution. The second saws:
We have fought our ancient oppressors
without arms, and we now trust to God
to defend us against the foreign foe
Aguinaldo's proclamation of Satur-
day says:
Il order and command:
"Ffrst-That peace and friendly rela-
tons with the Americans be broken.
and that the latter be treated as en-
enies within the limits prescribed by
the laws of war;
Second = That the Americans cap
tured will be held as prisoners of war.
'Third-That this proclamation be
communicated to the Consuls, and that
Congress order and accord a suspen-
sion of the constitutional guarantee re-
sulting from the declaration of war;
Aguinaldo's proclamation of Monday
says the outbreak of hostilities was
"uniustly and unexpectedly provoked
by the Americans; refers to his man
ifesto of January Sth, publishing the
alleged grievances of Filipinos at the
hands of the army of occupation, and
the constant outrages and the taunts
which have been causing misery to the
Manilans, and refers to the useless con-