The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-30
cTv. KING ENDORSES OTIS.
rs NE MANILA CAMPAIGN HAS
arrN WELL Conducted.


,,,.rerresentatiOns-H Says, "The
s.,ries OF Epidemics, of Crowded
,.;,oIs. Neglected Patients and
-..soIute Doctors Have No FOun-
,.+fon in Fact at Manila"-He De-
.,,res That the situation in Ma
a., IL rs Good as 1t Could Be at
mis- Time of the Year.
c,orr,sht. 1899, by S. S. Mcclure Co.
y.a. York. July est must be remem-
- That our little command at Manila
r-.e.sr was very busily occupied-that
- officer and man had his assigned
....or and duties and little or no o9por-
,ar.ry of seeing anything or anybody not
Immediately connected herewith. We
we're confronted with a problem, and the
s7sirgent Filipinos of the Tagal tribe was
5ts most important factor. He kept us on
t5a oul vlye day and night even before
rho iDexcusI5 le attack in force begun Sat
,r85v evening, the 4th of February. My
ouDortunities were somewhat limited. In
stead of being sent to the Philippines, as
I had hoped with one of the earliest ex-
raltons. I was "side- tracked" So 20
sneak. al Honolulu, and assigned TO the
command of the new military district of
Hawaii So that not until December did
I get brigade in the defenses of Manila,
ard by that time any man with half an
eve could see that Aguinaldo's army
meant business
EarhWorks, entertainments and re-
douts were being thrown up over against
us. and Krupp guns trained on the block
houses occupied by my brigade. The sit
uauon demanded the utmost vigilance,
even if our orders from corps headquar-
te1s had not frequently enjoined It. I
never once attended a theater or opera at
Manila. and only once, until just before
my departure last May. saw the streets
Of that city after dark, and that was the
night Of the great fire in the Tondo dis
trict The Pasg river was the dividing
line between the territories held by the
First and Second Divisions Respectively.
and though there came scores of CID
friends and comrades to MacArthurs
front as well as to ours, there was, except
within our own lines, no way to see them.
The Little Brown Men.
It was a compact little command.
though. that met the first onset Of the
FGipinos i'm February last Except the
AflAA --l44eN ~ tll4l1 anu Inc FIRST lem
ressee, the Fourteenth Infantry and ar
tilIery ana squadron of the Fourth Cav
airy of the regular army, the Eighth
Corps was made up of regiments of vol
uuttets from the far Western states, Of
men Injured to hardship, schooed from
boyhood in camp and field life and. most
Of them acclimated by six months So
1ourn about Manila-six months of drill
and discipline that made them the peers
OF any troops the world ever saw-har1y.
vigorous and enthusiastic. The monotony
OF the life had made most of them rather
eager To go home as the autumn wore
on The Spanish war was ended and ac-
tive service seemed improba bic, but by the
list Of December the little brown men"
with whom they had been on such Jolly
terms, began course of aggraVation,
proyocaljon and open Insult that culmi-
mated in the general attack along the
whole line before the dawn of the 5th of
foualry Then you couldn't have bought
a soldier to leave
Only once-and that only just before my
departure In May, as l say, was I able TO
LOOK over the country through which Mac
Arthur fought his way to the capture of
me lnsuIsent capitol at Malolos and the
pursuit of Aguinaldo and Luna to the
ualn he crossed one broad river after an
other Without adequate artillery he drove
me enemy from line after line Of the most
elaborate field works ever seen, while the
laia-el column of Lawton twenty miles
I Ia. iner to the east, forced a way through
'AIeheIs OF bamboo and dense junglos
t"atnir with dusky rifiemen. My front"
Sl.eI our pitched battle with Ricarti's
brigade at Santa Ana and the pursuit up
'"e river was that Of the line of the Pasig
t'Sl ana sou beast of Manila and away up
" lAe beautiful Laguna de Bay, over open
tEI'Ns country, through dozens of popu-
VuS towns and villages and intermina bic
Ice Hei1s, and il is all this country and
u'al IN front Of Ovenshine's brigade from
Idsay 10 Paranaque with which l was ia
"IlIar. can see it all now, and, so many
aDa many time-night and day-did
me the trails and fields from San Pedro
M"cau TO Pasig ferry and the farther
nsn,s overlooking Pateros and Taguig,
,n't II seems as though l could follow them
blndfold
Guerrilla Warfare.
mat Is, | could If they looked as thew
o NJ, rom February TO May, but they don't.
iNe Gay the advance guard of my brigade
louneed on the big town of Pasig and the
-. 'i'" OF mat island metropolis and us
s.Naler neghhors came out and rendered
-orInal written surrender, the fields
anu s.1 roads We're sun-baked and dry as a
,t- Inc enemy, demoralized by the as
.5,-'i9"+uS overthrow of all their hopes and
a ag' 'helr grievous losses at Santa Ana
GNU, lNe herce pursuit of the Idahos and
1''i'i mans Of our brigade-had fed far
, uP .'le Lasuna, and not one could be found
I'm range Of our Springfields Now-ail
rI,ia trenches, rice fields and roads are liz
tor '' "'ul' The rains descend each day in
60. ''s-and our dripping battle lines arc
h., ~ strong outposts with far outlv-
d. 9 p'eAe's peering through The mist ana
WV "P9u' at the fitting forms of their &C.
ST., ny nsnt blue check uniforms of the in
Tba t '.'s seem to have been abandoned.
cra.,, '.'1ols Red PantsY of Aguinaldo's
den, ''s .ments that were so much in evi-
be,r5 9a'' y the war are seldom seen or
mann Either in their native brown or
rfors 'ufed white the dusky title war;
plcle. o'er along The front, picking off a
pro,,,r.. WA never they can and giving
rr many notice Of anything that Cooks like
move On our part.
Of .l- 1i'S hhow well enough that no move
an. 'o'hee can be made, that the roads
s.3 'u'''Ssable and the fields are ponds.
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