The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-23
Correspondents Not Allowed to Ex-
press Their Opinions.
ALL NEWS IS CENSORED
DISPATCHES ARE DICTATED
VERBATIM BY THE GENERAL.
Newspapers Are Not Public Institu-
tons, Consequently They Must
Take the News the Commanding
General Dictates-Filipinos Have
Not Lost Their Fighting Spirit.

Manila, Aug. 10 (via Hongkong, Aug
22).-The Filipino rebels appear TO re
tain much more OF a fighting spirit than
might be expected after their recent
San Fernando experiences, and General
/ LawtonS drubbing in the south. After
giving up San Fernando with a feeble
struggle they entrenched themselves at
Angeles, working for several days and
impressing non-combatantS into the
work, thus saving the armed men for
the fighting. They engaged Lieutenant
Colonel Smiths regiment and the ar
tillery warmly for four hours, making
one of the most stubborn resistanceS
of the campaign. But the Americans
are indebted to the usual poor marks
manship of the Filipinos as well as
their own strategy for their small
losses. ~
In the province of Cavite, where is
was supposed the rebels had been scat
tered and demoralized beyond recupera-
ton, they have assembled an army of
several thousand men, distributed
among the important towns of the lake
to the bay.
After the San Fernando engagement
the rebels attempted to deter the Amer
leans from a further advance north
ward by menacing the railroad COM
munication. Several hundred of Cen
eral Pho del Pillars men crossed the Rio
Grande between the American outpost
towns and threatened Baliuig, Quingut
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 Bigaa and Malolos. Re-
Inducements of American troops. how
ever. were sent along the railroad from
E'ar-1Hn6n
forces at Baliug and Quingut sailed
out against General Pho del Pillars men,
and the rebels were easily driven away.
In brushes between the Filipinos and
Americans during three days the Am
orleans lost several men, while. the
Filipinos loss was heavy.
Press Censorship.
OF these operations the Associated
Press correspondent was permitted to
send only an inadequate dispatch, die
tated verbatim by Major General Otis.
The censor writes stereotyped official
phrases and adjectiyes into the dis
patches. tending to magnify, the AM
erican operations and to minimize the
opposition.
General Otis says newspapers are not
public Institutions. but private enter
prises, and the correspondents are only
here on sufferance.
All reports from the rebel territory
agree that scarcity of food is increas-
ing and that the rebel commanders at
Aparty and other points refused to
obey Aguinaldo's orders in regard to
closing the ports held by the rebels
against American ships, and say that
any ship bringing stores will be well
coined.
Several ships from Manila are now
at these ports.
Hundreds of people come into Ma
Mia daily and return to the rebel lines
with food and other commodities. The
guards stationed along the road re-
ported that 5000 persons passed
through the lines in three days, and
that forty-five tons of rice were car
ried out in small parcels on the same
road in ten days. Much of this un-
doubtedly goes to aid the rebels, put
the authorities permit this traffic from
motives of charity toward the women
and children, who are undoubtedly suf-
fering.
General Macarthur is establishing
governments in the villages
north of Manila. The mayor of Ba-
luag, the first town where General
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 on the town.
The American troops have been with
drawn from all that part of the coun-
try 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 more than half the
howitzer ammunition used during the
fight at Angeles was defective and
failed to explode.