The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-23
ON SUFFERANCE.
How Gen. Otis Says Correspondents
Are in Manila.

Are in Manila.
MANILA, Aug 10 (vfa Hong Kong, Aug.
22).-The Filipino rebels appear to retain
much more of a fighting spirit than might
be expected after their recent San Fer
nando experiences and Gen. LawtonS
drubbings in the south
After giving up San Fernando with
feeble struggle, they entrenched them
selves at Angeles. working for several
days and pressing non-combatants into
work, thus saving the armed men for the
fighting. They engaged Lieut.. Col.
Smiths regiment and the artillery warm
" for four hours, making one of the most
stubborn resistances of the campaign.
But the Americans are indebted to the
usual poor Workmanship of the Fllipinos,
as well as to their own strategy, for their
small losses.
In the province of Cavite, where it was
supposed the rebels had been scattered
and demoralized beyond recuperation,
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 deter the Americans
from further advance nOrthward by
menacing the railroad communications.
Several hundred of Gen. Pho del Pillars
men crossed the Rio Grande between the
Baliuag, Quingua and other places with
small American garrisons, while, during
Sunday and Monday nights, smaller
bands tried to tear up the railroad tracks
at several points between Rigaa and Ma
lolos.
Reinforcements of American troops,
however, were sent along the railroad
from Manila to San Fernando while the
forces at Baliuag and Quingua sailed out
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driven away. In brushes between these
Filipinos and the Americans during three
days the Americans lost several men,
while the Filipinos loss was heavier.
OF these operations the Associated
Press correspondent was permitted to
send only an inadequate dispatch, die
tated verbatim by Maj. Gen. Otis. The
censor writes stereotyped official phrases
and adtectives into the dispatches, tend
ing to magnify the American operations
and minimize the opposition.
Gen. Otis says newspapers are not pub
lie institutions but private enterprises,
and the correspondents are only here on
sufferanCe.
All reports from the rebel territory
agree that the scarcity of food is tncreas-
ing and that the rebel commanders at
APART and other points refuse to obey
Aguinaldo's order in regard to closing the
ports held by the rebels against Ameri-
can ships, ana say that any ship bringing
stores will be welcomed Several ships
from Manila are now at such ports
Hundreds of the people come into Ma
Mia daily and return to the rebel lines
with food and other commodities The
guards stationed along one road reported
that five 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 suf-
feriEg.
Gen Macarthur is establishing munich
pal 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 trustworthy of
the natives, has been placed in jau.
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.
1t is alleged that more than half the
howitzer ammunition used during the