El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-17
That the Official Reports
From the Philippines
Have Been Too Rosy
THEY DEFY THE CENSOR
And From Hong Kong Send
AStatementWhich Would
Seem To Require
An Answer.

HONG KONG, July 1.-THE under
signed, all staff correspondents OF
American newspapers in Manila, unite
in the following statement:
"We believe that owing to official
dispatches from Manila made public in
Washington, the people of the United
States have not a correct impression OF
the situation in the Philippines, and
that these dispatches presented An ul-
tra-optimistic view not shared by gen.
eral officers in the field.
"We believe that these dispatches
are incorrectly representing the exist
ing conditions among the Filipinos,
respecting internal dissensions and de-
moralizations resulting from the Amer
lean campaign and the brigand char
acter of their army.
"We believe the dispatches err in
the declaration that the situation is
we'll in hand and the assumption that
the 1nsurrection can be speedily ended
without a greatly increased force.
ssWe think the tenacity and purpose
of the Filipinos have been underesti-
mated and that statements areunfound
ed that the volunteers are willing to
give further service.
1.-THE censorship has compelled US to
participate in this misrepresentation
by exciting or altering uncontroverted
statements and facts on the plea, as
General Otis stated, that they would
alarm the people at home, or have the
people in the United States by the
ears
s'Speciications OF this are the prohi-
bition to send hospital reports and the
number of heat pros.rations in tie
field; suppression of full reports OF field
operations in the event of their failure;
systematic minimization of the naval
operations, and prohibition to send
complete reports of the situstion.
(Signed)
"BAsS and DINwIDDIE,
New York Herald.
DAVIS and MCDONALD,
New York Sun.
ARMSTRONG and MCCUTCHEoN,
Chicago Record.
LITTLE, Chicago Tribune.
JCNES, SOLLlNS3 ouo
The Associated Press.
KEEN.
Soripps McRae League and Western
Press Association"
NEW YORK, July 1.-THE Journal
this morning prints dispatch from
James Creelman, formerly the
Journals correspondent at.Manila, who
is now at London, in which he says
that unless Gen. Otis is removed the
campaign in the Philippines will be a
failure. He says: "To be perfectly
plain Otis is fussy old man unaccus-
toned to anything but regimental COM
maud and saturated with the ideas and
methods of a routing clerk. His ex-
perience does not go outside of regi-
mental lines. He is not capable OF
dealing with the far reaching and in
tricste problems involved in war
with the natives"
MADRID, July 17.-Csptaiu General
Rios, ex-governor general of the Phi
lippines, who recently returned to
Spain, declares that the war in the
Philippines is far more serious than
people in the United States seem to
imagine, but that the Americans will
win in the end. The principal cause of
the prolongation of the war, he says,
is the fact that the Germans, Japanese,
and even Chinese are constantly furn-
ishing the insurgents with war mate
rial.
uWASHINGTON, July 1.-THE signed
statement from correspondents sent
from Manila created sensation here.
Alger is away, and Miles declines to
discuss the matter. Other officials de-
clare that it is as important as Roose-
velt's famous Ground robin" from
Cuba. A copy of the letter was given
to the president and it Is said he will
call cabinet meeting tomorrow.