The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-03
The Situation as Seen by
an Englishman.
AGUINALDO'S INFLUENCE
Again Being Exercised ~ b Na-
lives - Osis' Management severely
livery OF American Prisoners To-day
OH. Go Grant an u~aserv,ew to snsur.
gent ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for Release
Of Spautsh Prisoner

Manila, September 2s.-General hae
Arthur's command has returned to An
geles. where Generals Macarthur.
Wheaton and Wheeler have established
their headquarters with 1900 troops. II
is expected they will remain there un-
til a general advance Is ordered. There
are no troops at Porac.
Nine Americans were wounded in
yesterdays lighting. two p-obably ia
tally. II Is estimated that fifty insur-
gents were killed or wounded.
The American prisoners are expected
here tomorrow, unless yesterdays
whipping changed Aguinaldo's mind.
The Spanish commissioners who re-
. Gently spent a month at Tariac arrived
at Angeles today. They will proceed
TO the Filipino lines. The commission
| ers say they are confident they will ar
! range for the liberation OF all Spanish
| prisoners.
| Lieutenant Rowland, OF General
wheaton's stan, has visited the inner
! ably to notify them that the Spanfsh
commissioners were coming. He met
| with a friendly reception.
The American authorities are arrang-
! ing the details OF the delivery OF the
American prisoners at Angeles tonight
or tomorrow. A Filipino general. an
aide-de-camp and n secretary Will ac-
company them to Manila. The insur-
gents have been instructed that they
may send a representative to confer
with Major General Otis. The regi-
ments are resting at Porac.
Generals Otis and Schwan and pos
sibly Generals Lawton and Bates will
proceed TO Angeles today. where they
may confer with Filipino commission
ers. as the result OF an exchange of
communications between General Mae
Arthur and the insurgents.
Filipino general is expected with the
American prisoners today.
Two accommodating parties came into
collision with the insurgents near linus
and four Americans were wounded.
Washington, September 29.-General
Otis today cabled the following report
OF the capture OF Porac:
"Lawton's troops at Calumpft and
San Fernando where concentration
taking place, ordered to cover country
Mexico. Guagua, Bacolor and Santa
reta- Macarthur ordered To take his
troops and clear country west and In
vicinity OF Porac, which he did yeSter-
day, advancing on Porac at an early
hour with Ninth infantry and Thirty
sixth volunteers, capturing Porac and
driving enemy north. Wheaton at An
geles kept enemy on his north and
moved force westward to interrupt
Porac insurgents. but they reiterated
by mountain roads. results clearing the
country preparatory TO future opera
tons. Our casualties at Porac 1--WE
wounded. Wheaton does not report
any casualties Captured one officer
and several enlisted men; some twenty
Of the enemy killed. number wounded
unknown"
AGUINALDO HAS THE AID
VANTAGE.
London, September 30.-The Times
publishes his morning long extracts
from a private letter from Manila, dat
ed August 21st, whose writer asserts
that Aguinaldo is getting the best OF
it; that the Americans are making no
practical progress; that Aguinaldo has
~regained his influence over the villages
and has lately obtained a lot OF money.
with which he is endeavoring to foment
disturbances in Manila
"Aguinaldo," says the writer, offers
double the amount of the rewards for
American rifles and arms that General
Otis offers for Filipino weapons. The
result is that the Americans get none
l of the latter, while their own are
being constantly stolen"
After calling General Otis good in
! tentioned. but sluggish and extremely
parsimonious," the letter attributes TIN
I difficulties of the Americans VERY
? largely to this false economy"
Manila is inadequately policed, bu'
. the officers know 1t would be useless u
, ask for more. The hospitals are mad
eauately stated, but General Otis de
clares, according to the writer. tha
half the men in the hospitals are no
would only result in an increase OF pre-
+anlaI inraIflz