The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-23
RETAIN THEIR SPIRITS
Filipinos Are as Active as They
Ever Were.
OTIS CENSORS THE NEWS
Commanding General Will Allow Core
spondents to Send Out Only Stereo-
typed Phrases Dictated by Himself.
Establishing Municipal Law.

Manila. Aug 10. via Hong Kong, Aug.
22.-The Filipino rebels appear to retain
much more fighting spirit than might
be expected after recent San Fernando
experiences and General Lawton's drub-
bings in the south. After giving up
San Fernando with a feeble struggle
they entrenched themselves at Angeles,
working for several days and Impress
ing the non-combatants into work,
thus saving the armed men for fight
ing. They engaged Lieut.. Col. Smiths
regiment and artillery warmly for four
hours, making one of the most stub
born resistances of the campaign, but
the Americans are indebted to the
usual poor Workmanship of Filipinos
as we'll as to their own strategy for
their small losses.
In Cavite province where it was sup
posed the rebels had been scattered and
demoralzed byOnd recuperation they
have assembled an army of several
thousand. After the San Fernando en-
gagement the rebels attempted to deter
the Americans from a further advance
northward by menacing railroad COM
munication. Several hundred of Cen
eral Pillars men crossed the Rio Grande
between the American outpost towns
and threatend Baluag, Quingua and
other small American garrisons, while
smaller bands tried to tear up the rail-
road tracks at several points between
Bigaa and Malolos. Reinforcements Of
American troops, however, were sent
along the railroad from Manila to San
Fernando while forces at Baluag and
Quingua sailed out against General
Pillars men and the rebels were easily
driven away. In the brush between the
F'ilipinos during the three days the
Americans lost several men while the
Filipino loss was heavy.
OF these operations the Associate
Press correspondent was permitted to
send only inadequate dispatches die
tated verbatim by Major General Otis.
The censor writes stereotyped official
phrases and adjectives into the dis
patches tending to magnify the Amer
lean operations and minimize the oppo-
sition Otis says the newspapers are
not public institutions but private en-
terprises and the correspondents are
only here on sufferance.
All reports from rebel territory agree
that the scarcity of food is increasing
and rebel commanders at Aparty and
other points refused to obey Aguin-
aldo's orders in regard to closing ports
held by rebels against American ships
and say any ship bringing stores will
be welcomed. Several ships from Ma
Mia 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 45 tons of rice We're carried out in
small parcels on the same road in ten
days. Much of this undoubtedly goes
to aid the rebels, but the authorities
permit this traffic from motives of
charity toward women and children
who are undoubtedly suffering.
General Macarthur is establishing
municipal governments in the villages
north of Manila. The mayor of Baluag,
the first town where Lawton estab-
lshed 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 attack on the
town.
The American troops have been with
drawn from all that part of the country
which was half cleared of rebels earlier
The rebels have returned to San Mateo,
which was abandoned for the third
time after its recent capture.
II is alleged more than half of the
howitzer ammunition used during the
fight at Angeles was defective and
failed to explode