The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-18

GERS III tAe utIu III command OF GIFl5
ions OF the gallant Eighth Arm,
. Corps. Lawton, Bates. Joe Wheeler
Schwan. Andy Burt. but thei~ sword
are locked in their sheatls. One o
{ OTIS orders is, Not u fire until tn,
tFIlpiuo ampLies his rifle s.rang;
aoEdiiou 10 confront an cap0st-ssntr,
with: TO compel him u stand am
watch a so-caIled amigo" Filipino 81,
!, cut our position holding a hoe II his
hands TO encourage the feeling 9E his
'friend!iness.
While l remained al II Iona
Church, on the firing line. | saw 4aln-
dreds Of Filipino women with hea.ily
laden baskets of food balanced upon
their heads, daily stride past Ike
church, past our wondering sentries.
across the 1900 yards OF open field and
disappear into the stretch Of forest on
the opposite side behind which Pillars
division skufked. We estimated that
in six days 1900 pounds OF foo1I had
! thus passed through our lines to feed
Our friends the enemy" Brigade and
swore because the power wsas TAKEN
from them to confscate the Atiblas.
Yet General Otis order reafa liter
ally that 1.-The natives shall not be dis
turhed when they are without arms,
and are pursuing the peaceful voe.tIorls
of life; and do nothing to max /. -hara
discontinued with American rule
Pursue the peaceful vocationa Of L fer
When a native uses a hoe II !. fzald-
the American sentry feels Certaj- that
buried within a few feet Of the peace
full native. is i deadly btausar rife and
plenty Of ammunition And 50 the
long caravans of Filipino stomach
go out every tiay uz~ruO-
Tested
Almost every day field staten -fts
come in from all parts of the line re-
porting the deaf. OF one and sometimes
two men, often times within tue last |
two weeks. the deaths being very. au-I
Otis plainly does not control the situa-
tiCn; he merely commands such posi- |
tons as his troops occupy along the |
line in barracks aad under patrol. |
Within the very city itself. IN Is 8 ueart |
OF the Tondo and Bina1do dtYtrict |
which have already been SWEPT with |
fire and sword. the natives, are. fully /
lnown to be insurrecto8 OF she worst I
class, and an outbreak is nightly feared, /
so that heavy reserves. are held within
the city to patrol the streets a night.
and woe betide that individual Wl3 is
found Ipon the streets, except aJ2 army
officer, after $50 p. IL Tlsat IS Ma
lilas "Gurfew" honr, Even the Re
serve hospitals almost in the heart Of
he city are now heavily gua@aed
against q massacre ST the inmates,
arms being supplied the itlsstiiu buttons
al the convalesceEts' defence
If tha military operations are . be
successfully performed, AMI Rapub-
lean civil government firmly essab-
ished, there should be a head to each
department with full powers for carry
ng out their plans, with possibly a
Governor General over all. With their
roper officers, each department ahtsIId
,e able without further expensive de
ay to speedily terminate a. question
which under present conditions Is
colossal one This seems to he 81 I'M
written consensus Of opiniau 2no15 the
lrmy officers
True it is that the array Is sadly
deficient in transportation facilities
the disaster to our own ship, the
Siam" interfering with the problem
sreatlyl, as the Filipino ponies, little
arger than Shetlands are unable to
lraw the heavy loads required, and
therefore, slow-moying Caribaos are
PRESSED ito service However, the great
warehouses of the Quartermaster De-
,artment are filled to overlooking every
transport adding tons upon tons of ma
erial and subsistence, which ought
ong ago to have been forwarded to the
army. and the army in turn advanced
ntQ the enemy's country. Yet even
his has not been accomplished. The
egimeutal warehouses are well filled,
nut these are located in Manila, but
,ften at too great 8 distance for prompt
service OF the commissary.
"Aguinaldo evidently has very COM
ylete information of every contemplate
d movement Of the American army, as
ertained by his spies who are employ
ii as amigos" in every department OF
he United States service. They are
hrewd little people and worm their
way into army secrets with amazing
.lacrity. The under-warden Of Bnibid
prison, appointed to his position be-