Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-23
REBELS FULL OR FIGHT
Manila News Told In an Uncensored
Dispatch.
THE BATTLE AT ANGELES.
According to This Report, FilipinOa
Fought For Four Hours and
Made Despe rate Resist
ance to Our Troops.

Manila via Hongkong, Aug. 23.-The
Filipino rebels appear to retain much
more of fighting spirit than might be
expected after their recent San Fernan.
do experiences and General Lawton's
drubbings in the south. 9
After giving up San Fernando with a
feeble struggle they intrenched them
selves at Angeles, working for several
days and mpressing noneombatants into
the work, thus saving the armed men, for
the fighting. They engaged Lieutenant
Colonel Smiths regiment and the artil-
ery warmly for four hours, making one
Of the most stubborn resistances of the
campaign. But the Americans are in
debted to the usual poor craftsmanship
of the Filpinos as we'll as to their own
strategy for their small losses.
In the province Of Cavite, where it was
supposed the rebels had been scattered
and demoraized beyond recuperaton,
they have assembled an army of several
thousand men, distributed among the i'm
portant towns from the lake to the bay.
After the San Fernando engagement
the rebels attempted to dissuade the
Americans from farther advance north
ward by menacing the railroad communi-
cation. Several hundred of General Pho
del Pillars men crossed the Rio Grande
between the American outpost towns
and threatened Balinag, Quingua and
other places with small American garri-
sons, while, during Sunday and Monday
nights, smaller bands tried to tear up the
track at several points between Bigaa
and Malolos. Re-enforcements of Amer
lean troops. however, were sent along
the railroad from Manila to San Fer
nando, while the forces at Balinag and
Quingua sailed out against General Pic
del Pillars men. and the rebels were cas-
lily driven away.
In brushes between these Filipinos and
the Americans during three days the
Americans lost several men. while the
Filipinos lost many of their number.
Otis Dictated Dispatch.
OF these operations the correspondent
was permitted to send ;.y;ys en- made
quate dispatch, dictated verbatim by
Major General Otis. The censor writes
stsreotyped official phrases and adjec'
tives into the dispatches, tending to
magnify the American operations and to
minimize the opposition. General Otis
says newspapers are not public institu-
tions, but private enterprises, and the
correspondents are only here on suffer
ance.
All reports from the rebel territory
agree that the scarcity of food is in.
creasing and that the rebel commanders
at Apart and other points refuse to
obey Aguinaldo's order in regard to clos
ing the ports held by the rebels against
American ships and say that any ship
bringing stores will be welcomed. Sew
eral 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 one road reported that
5000 persons passed through the lines
in three days, and that As tons of rice
were carried out, in small parcels, on the
same road in ten days.
Aids the Rebels.
Much of this undoubtedly goes to aid
the rebels, but the authorities permit
this traffic from motives Of charity to
ward the women and children, who are
undoubtedly suffering.
General Macarthur is establishing mu
nicipal governments in the villages north
of Manila.
The mayor of Balinag. 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 has been 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 used during the
fight at Angeles was defective and failed
to explode.