The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-08-26
.F|L|P|NOS ARE ON THE FIGHT
AFTER SEVERAL DEFEATS.
Show Much .Spirit-Have Avoided the
CensOr-News Comes by Way OF Hong
Kong-Have-an.A Army of Seven Thous-
and Csyits Military Rule.

Manila, Aug. 24.-The Filipino rebels
appear to retain much more fighting spir-
it than might be expected after their re-
cent San Fernando experiences and Gen.
eral Lawton's drubbing in the south.
After giving up San Fernando, with
feeble struggle, they entrenched them
selves at Angeles, working for several
days and impressing non combatants into
the work, thus saving armed men for
fighting. They engaged Lieutenant Col
onel Smiths regiment and the artillery
warmly for four hours, making one of the
most stubborn resistances of the cam
paign, but the Americans are indebted to
the usual poor craftsmanship of the Fill
pinos as well as their own strategy for
their small losses.
In Cavite province, where it was sup
posed the rebels had been scattered and de-
moralized beyond recuperation, they have
assembled an army of several thousand.
After the San Fernando engagement the
rebels attempted to deter the Americans
from further advance northward, menac
ing the railroad communications. Several
hundred of General Pillars men crossed
the Rio Grande between the American out
posts towns and threatened Balinag,
Quingat and other places with small
American garrisons, while during Sunday
and Monday nights smaller bands tried to
tear up the railroad tracks at several
points between Biggaa and Malolos Re-
Inducements Of American troops, how
ever, were sent along the railroad from
Manila to San Fernando, while forces at
Balinag and Quingat sailed out against
General Pillars men and the rebels were
easily driven away. In brush between
the Filipinos and Americans during three
days the Americans lost several men,
while the Filipinos loss was heavy.
Otis and the Correspondents.
OF these operations the Associated Press
correspondent was permitted to send only
inadequate dispatches, dictated verbatim
by Major General Otis. The censor writes
sterotyped official phrases and adjectives
into the dispatches tending to magnify the
American operations and minimize the op.
position. Otis says the newspapers are
not public institutions, but private enter
prises and correspondents are only here
on suffrage.
All reports from rebel territory agree
that the scarcity of food is increasing and
the rebel commissioners at Aparty and
other points refused to obey Aguinaldos
orders in regard to closing the ports held
by rebels against American ships and say
any ship bringing stores will be welcomed.
Several ships from Manila are now at these
ports.
Hundreds Of people come into Manila
daily and return to the rebel lines with
food and other commodities. The guards
stationed along the road reported that
5000 persons passed through the lines in
three days and that as tons of rice were
carried out in small parcels on the same
road in 10 days. Much Of this undoubted.
ly goes to aid the rebels, but the authori-
ties permit this traffic from motives OF
charity toward the women and children
who are undoubtedly suffering.
General Macarthur is establishing mill
tary governments in the villages north OF
Manila. The mayor of Balinag, the first
town where Lawton established the same
rule, who was supposed to be one of the
most friendly and trustworthy of the ma
tives, has been placed in Jail charged with
arranging with the rebels for an attack
OH the town.
The American troops have been with
drawn from all that part of the country
which was half cleared Of rebels 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 half the howitzer am
munition used during the fight at Angeles
was defective and failed to explode.