The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-23
KEEP FIGHTING
Their Poor Workmanship
Makes the American
Losses Small.

Manila, Aug. 10, via Hong Kong,
Aug. 22.-The Filipino rebels appear to
retain much more of a fighting spirit
than might be expected after their re-
cent San Fernando experiences in
Gen. Lawton's drubbings in the south.
After giving up San Fernando with a
feeble struggle, they entrenched them
selves at Angeles, working for several
days and impressing non-combatants
into the work, thus saving the armed
men for the fighting. They engaged
Lieut.. Col Smiths regiment and the
artillery warmly for four hours, maxi
ing one of. the most stubborn resist
ances of the campaign. But the Amer
leans are indebted to the usual poor
craftsmanship of the Filipinos, as well
as their own strategy, for their small
losses. In the province of Cavite,
where it was supposed the rebels ahd
been scattered and demoralized be-
yond recuperation, they have assem-
Dled an army Of several thousand men,
distributed among the important towns
from the lake to the bay.
After the San Fernando engagement
the rebels attempted to dissuade the
Americans from further advance
northward by menacing the railroad
communication. Several hundred of
Gen. Pho Del Pillars men crossed the
Rio Grande, between the American out
post towns, and threatened Balinag,
Quingua and other places with small
American garrisons, while during Sun
day and Monday nights, smaller bands
tried to tear up the railroad tracks at
several points between Bigaa and Ma
lolos. Reinforcements of American
troops, however were sent along the
railroad from Manila to San Fernando,
While the forces at Balinag and Quin-
qua sailed out against Gen. Pho Del
Pillars men and the rebels were easily
driven away. In brushes between these
Filipinos and the Americans duping
three days, the Americans lost several
men, while the Fihpinos lost many of
their number
OF these operations, the Associated
Press correspondent was permitted to
send only an inadequate dispatch, die
tated verbatim by Maj. Gen Otis. The
censor wrote stereotyped official phrases
and adjectives into the dispatches
tending to magnify the American OPP
erations and to minimize the opposi-
ton. Gen. Otis says newspapers are
not public institutions but private en-
terprises, and the correspondents are
only here on sufferance.
All reports from the rebel territory
agree that the scarcity of food is in
creasing, and that the rebel command
ers at Apiarri and other points refuse
to obey Aguinaldo's order in regard tc
closing the ports held by the rebels
against American ships, and say that
any ship bringing stores will be vel
| coined. Several ships from Manila are
now at such ports
Gen. Macarthur is establishing mum.
| cipal government in the villages north
of Manila. The mayor of Balinag. the
| first town where Gen. Lawton estab-
| lished the same rule. who was supposed
to be one of the most friendly and
trustworthy of the natives. has beer
placed in Jail, charged with arranging
with the rebels for an attack on the
town.
The rebels have returned to San Ma
teo, which was abandoned for the third
time after its recent capture. 1t is al
legged that more than half the howitzer
ammunition used during the fight at
Angeles was defective and failed to ex-
plode.