The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-02-08
A DECLARATION OF WAR.
Aguinaldo Orders That Friendly Relations
With the Americans De Broken and
That They Be Treated as Enemies,

Manila, Feb. 8.-There are many in
dications that Manila Is full of des-
| perados who had intended to CO.
| operate with Aguinaldo. The police
are continually capturing men and
womon with weapons concealed in
their clothing. The vigilance of the
authorities in this respect Is highly
reasSuring.
Last Saturday midnight two En-
glishmen accidentally encountered a
gang of armed natives in a dark side
street. The natives, fearing discovery,
imprisoned them until morning and
threatened to kill them unless they
maintained silence.
Many native clerks employed by
mercantile houses are missing. AS it
is impossible that they should have
passed the lines, the inference is that
they are in hiding iS the city.
The natives are terribly cowed, and
the precautions taken, especially
against inccndiarism, are admirable.
The rebels, who have been swept in
every direction, die by the hundreds
in the trenches-for the most part
Dassively, except the Ygorotes, who
charge desperately and uselessly.
The rebel prisoners declare that
their attack was unpremcditated, that
the outposts fired and then everybody
followed, in accordance with a sort OF
general understanding.
The terrible losses of the rebels may
be gathered from the fact that 16O Of
them were buried in one rice field on
Monday, near Pasas. and that 81 werc
inferred between Faco and Santa Ana.
A converted river gunboat did ter
rible execution among the rebels,
sweeping both banks of the river with
her gatllng guns and her heavier bat.
terry. Hundreds Of Filipinos undcubt-
edly crawled into the canebrakes and
died there.
Members Of the hospital corps have
made the startling discovery that there
are several women, in male dress and
with hair cropped. among the dead.
The chief of the Ygorotes, the Fill
pino natives who fought so gallantly
in the face of our artillery fire with
their bows and arrows is in hospital
with shattered thigh. He admits
that he never saw modern artillery
and was ignorant of its effects until
he and his followers met the disastrous
fire Of Sunday morning.
AguInaldo, the rebel leader has Is
sued two proclamations. The first de-
clares: 81 order and command that
peaceful and friendly relations with the
Americans be broken, and that the lat
ter be treated as enemies, within the
limits prescribed by the laws of war;
that the Americans captured be held as
prisoners of war; that this proclama-
tion be communicated to the consuls,
and that congress order and accord
suspension of the constitutional guar
antee resulting from the declaration
of war" Aguinaldo's second procla-
nation says the outbreak of hostili-
ties was "unjustly and unexpectedly
provoked hy the Americans"
Lieutenant Afford, of the Twentieth
Kansas infantry, and private of that
were killed and six ether
members of the regiment were wound
ed near Caloocan Monday evening
while reconnoitcring. The party was
in jungle, when it was attacked by
the enemy. Two companies of the
Kansas regiment were sent to the re-
lief of their comrades and drove The
into Caloocan, penetrating to
the very heart of the town. Mean
while the gunboats shelled tho sub
lrbs. General Otis finally recalled the
troops. but the natives. misunder-
standing the retreat, failed to take adj
of it. The outskirts Of the
town were burned.