The record-union., 1899-08-23
Notwithstanding Their Many Defeats at
Hands Of The America ans.
Have Assembled an Army of Sew
era1 Thousand Men in the Prov
ince of Cavite, Where Tt Was
Supposed They Were Demora1-
lied and Scattered Beyond Re
cuperation.

MANILA, Aug. 10. via Hongkong,
Aug. %. = The Filipino rebels appear
TO retain much more of a fighting spirit
than might be expected after their re-
cent experiences at San Fernando and
General Lawton's drubbings in the
South. After giving up San Fernando
with a feeble struggle, they entrenched
themselves at Angeles, working for sew
eral days and imDressing non-combat
ants into the work, thus saving the
armed men from fighting. They en-
gagged Lieutenant Colonel Smiths regi-
ment and the artillery warmly for four
hours, making one of the most stubborn
! resistances of the campaign. But the
Americans are indebted to the usual
poor craftsmanship of the Filipinos as
we'll as 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 Of Laguna
Bay. After the San Fernando engage
ment the rebels attempted to deter the
Americans from a further advance
communications. Several hundred of
| General Pico del Pillars men crossed
the Rio Grande between the American
outpost towns, and threatened Baliuig,
Quingut and other places with small
American garrisons while during Sun
| day and Monday nights smaller bands
| tried to tear up the railroad tracks at
severa points between Bigama and Ma
l al Oni,n nf2,,
troops, however. were sent along the
railroad from Manila to San Fernando,
while the forces at Baliuag and Quin-
gut sailed out against Genedal Pho del
Pillars men and the rebels We're 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.
OF these operations the Associated
Press correspondent was permitted to
send only an inadequate dispatch, die
tated verbatim by Major r-General Otis
The censor writes stereotyped official
| phrases and adjectives into the dis
patches, tending to magnify the Ameri-
can and to minimize the operation.
| General Otis says newspapers are not
| public institutions, but private enter
prises, and the correspondents are only
here on sufferance.
| All reports from the rebel territory
agree that the scarcity of food is in
creasing, and that the rebel command
ers at Aparty and other points refuse
| to obey Aguinaldo's orders 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 these 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 reported that
| five thousand persons passed through
the lines in three days, and that forty
| five tons of rice were 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 children,
who are undoubtedly suffering.
! General Macarthur is establishing
municipal governments in the villages
north of Manila.
The Mayor of Baluag, the first town
where General Lawton established the
same rule, who was supposed to be one
of the most friendly and trustworthy
of the natives. has been placed in jail.
charged with arranging with the rebels
for an attack on the town.
| The American troops have been with
drawn from all that part of the country
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.
It is alleged that more than half the
Howitzer ammunition used during the
fight at Angeles was defective, and
failed to explode.