The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-22
Filipino Insurgents Have As
sembIed a Large Force
In Cavite Province From Which
They We're Driven.
RECENT DRUBBINGS
Seem to Have No Power to Dis
courage Them.
Everything Indicates That
They Are Full of Fight.

Manila, Aug. 19. via Hong Kong, Aug
22.-The Filipino rebels appear to retain
much more of a fighting spirit than
might be expected after their recent
San Fernando experiences and Cen
Lawton's drubbings in the south.
After giving up San Fernando with
q feeble struggle they entrenched them
selves at Angeles, working for several
davs and impressing non-c -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, max
ing one of the most stubborn resist
ances of the campaign But the Amerl-
cans are indebted to the usual poor
craftsmanship of the FilipinOs, as well
as to their own strategy for their small
losses.
In the province of Cavite. where it
was supposed the rebels had been scat
tered and demoralized beyond recuper-
alton they have assembled 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 deter the Amer
leans from a further advance north
ward by menacing the railroad COM
munication. Several hundred of Gen
Pho PiIar's men crossed the Rio Grande
between the American outpost town
and threatened Baliuag, Quingua and
other places with small American gar
risons, while during Sunday and Mon
day nights smaller bands tried to tear
up the railroad tracks at several points
between Bigaa and MalolOs. Reinforce
ments of American troops, however,
were sent along the railroad from Ma
Mia to San Fernando while the forces
at Baliuag and Quingua- sailed out
against Gen. Pillars men and the rebels
were easily driven away.
In brushes between the Filipinos and
the Americans during three days the
Americans lost several men, while the
Filipinos' loss was heavy.
OTIS SURPRISES NEWS.
OF these operations the Associated
Press correspondent was permitted to
send only an inadequate dispatch die
tated verbatim by Major General Otis.
The censor writes stereOtyped official
phrases and adjectives into the dis
patches tending to magnify the Ameri-
can operations and to minimize the op-
position.
Gen. Otis says newspapers are not
public institutions but private enter
prises. and the correspondents are only
here on suferance.
All reports from the rebel territory
agree that the scarcity of food is in
creasing and that the rebel command
ers at APART and other points refuse
to obey Aguinaldo's order in regard to
closing the ports held by the rebels
against American ships and say that
any ship bringing stores will be well
coined. Several ships from Manila are
now at such ports.
Hundreds of people come into Manila
daily and return to the rebel lines with
food and other commodities. The
guards stationed along the road report
ed that five thousand persons passed
through the lines in three days and
that As tons of rice We're carried out in
small parcels on the same road, in ten
days. Much of this undoubtedly goes
to aid the rebels. but the authorities
permit this traffic from motives of
charity toward the women and chill
dren, who are undoubtedly suffering.
Gen. Macarthur is establishing mu-
nicipal governments IN the villages
north of Manila.
The mayor of Baliuag, the first town
where Gen. Lawton established the
same rule, who was supposed to be
one of the most friendly and trust
worthy of the natives has been placed
III jail charged with arranging with the I
rebels for an attack on the town.
The American troops have been with |
drawn from all that part of the coun- |
try which was half cleared of rebels
in the expedition of the Americans in |
June last
The rebels have returned to San |
Mateo which was abandoned for the
third time after it's recent capture.
1t is alleged that more than half the !
HOwitzer ammunition during the fight |
at Angeles was defective and failed to |
explode
JOE WHEELER ARRIVES
Manila, Aug 22-While a reconnoft-
ering party of the Twenty-fourth tnfan-
Try under Capt. Crane was crossing the 1
Moriquini river on a raft the hawser
broke. The current. very swift at that |
point, caused the raft to capsize. drown !
ing nine enlisted men.
The United States transport Tartar |
from san Francisco July "a with Cen
erai Joseph Wheeler and his daughter.
troops OF the Nineteenth infantry and 1
more than $1,000, 600 in coin has arrived
TERRITORIAL CONVENTION. |