The record-union., 1899-02-01
Orders Issued to Expedite Move
ment Of Reinforcements.
Gen. Oils Fighting Strength to Be In
creased by Nearly 1000 Men.
The Filipino Junta at Hongkong
Enters a Protest Against the
Refusal of the United States to
Associate With the Philippines
Commission Representatives OF
the National Government"

WASHINGTON, JAN 31.-Orders
have been issued by the War Depart
ment to expedite the movement OF re-
Inducements to the Philippines me
transport Sherman will start from New
York next Thursday with the Thlrd
Regiment of Infantry and four compa-
MES of the Seventeenth Infantry. Inc
following Thursday, February 9TH, the
transport Sheridan will sail from the
same port with the Twelfth Infantry
and the headquarters and remaining
companies of the Seventeenth Infantry.
The officers in command of these troops
have been instructed by telegraph to
execute the orders for this movement
without unnecessary delay.
Both transports will follow the same
route to Manila taken by the trans
port Grant across the Atlantic and
through the Mediterranean and Suez
Canal. The Grant started several days
ago, and is now supposed to be in the
vicinity of Gibraltar.
General Lawton, who is to assume
active command of all military forces
in the Philippines when General Otis
becomes Military Governor of the Ter
ritory, is a passenger on the Grant.
Two regiments of infantry are also
under orders TO proceed to Manila by
way of the Pacific Ocean. One of
them has already started. and it is ex-
pected the other will take its departure
from San Francisco within few days.
The arrival of these four regiments
will increase General Otis fighting
strength by nearly 1000 men.
FILIPINOS PROTEST.
HONGKONG, Jan. 31-The Filipino
junta here publishes its protest against
the refusal of the United States to
associate with the Philippines Commits
sion representatives of the National
Government adding that "the use
fitness of the commission will neces-
sarily be greatly limited by the exclu-
sion of Filipinos.'
The protest continues: "It is i'm
possible for the commission, sitting only
at Manila, unaided by the friendly CO.
operation of the National Government.
to reach proper understanding of the
actual condition of affairs in the Phil
ippines. the unanimity of the aspira'
tions of the people and their capabiiity
for self-g government
Colonel Denby's utterances in the No
vember Forum are too pronounced to
inspire confidence.
Last week a Filipino boy was shot
by an American soldier in suburb of
Manila because he was wrangling with
a Chinaman in the market. The SOL
der was not prosecuted. and the boys
father, in revenge, attacked an Amer
lean outpost armed with a knife and
Ei1lad fbrQn of fhpr,1 Tho Haf>
The Filipino escaped.
"A Filipino officer was killed while
walking in Manila by an American SOL
der. There was no prosecution.
THE American army is daily pro-
voking hostilities by acts of vandal-
ISM
The junta also asserts that the "al-
legations respecting the filibustering
expedition and anarchy are falsehoods-
THE whole country" it is asserted
has declared its unconditional support
of Aguinaldo, whose authority has
never been defied. The public evident
ly ignores the fact that every province
In the archipelago is represented in
Congress.
General Otis action in prohibiting
code kilograms is a fragrant breach of
international law, but the truth is leak
ing out"
The Filipino newspapers denounce
alleged gross abuses at the Manila Gus
tom house.
FILIPINO PROCLAMATION.
PARIS, Jan. 31.-The Filipino junta
here has received cable message from
Hongkong explaining the second pro-
clamation of the Philippine Republic
The message says: 1.-THE first procla-
nation issued in August, was the work
of Aguinaldo and the Generals The
second is the unanimous work of the
Filipino Assembly
AN OUTBREAK MAY FOLLOW RAT
IFICATION OF TREATY.
LONDON, Jan. 31.-A dispatch re-
ceived from an English house at Iloilo
yesterday says business is proceeding
satisfactorily, but the Hongkong
agents of the same office cable that the
Iloilo telegram is unreliable, as moth
ing unfavorable to the Americans is
allowed to pass the censors"
The FiIiipinos in Europe think the
situation has in no wise improved They
fear an outbreak of hostilities as soon
as the peace treaty is ratified. They
add that the Fflipinos who surround
Manila number 10000, and that they
will not permit Americans to land re-
Inducements on the island of Luzon-
The stories of outrages on women,
etc, are strongly denied by the Filipi-
nos. who point out that all dispatches
received at Madrid praise the modera-
ton of the Tagolis.
DEATHS AT MANILA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-The War
Department has received a cablegram
from General Otis at Manila, in which
he reports the following deaths since
his last report:
January S.-Edward A. Rothmeyer,
private, A, Twentieth Kansas, small
pox.
January 9.-Eugene NJ Erwin, Cor
poral. M, First California, cirrhosis Of
the liver: Lewis r. Badger, private, F.
Twentieth Kansas. smallpox
january 11.-Abrent Mccain. private,
G, First Tennessee. smallpox: William
HI. Bell. private, c, First Colorado,
smallpox: e. p. Blair. private, A, Twen-
tieth Kansas, smallpox
January 14.-Benjamin w. Squires,