The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-05
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Another Big Battle With the FIJI
g"4 ipinos Is Predicted -st
MANILA, April 5.-The Insurgents are
massing strong forces north of Calumpit,
about five and one-half miles northwest
| of Maioios, and, according to the OBJ
servations of the accommodating parties
they have fine entertainments there. II
is expected that hard fighting viii be
necessary to dislodge them at that point
and at San Fernando, where Agulnaldo
is supposed to be. Large rivers strength
en- both positions. The Montana reg1-
ment had one man killed and three
wounded yesterday. twenty-five men
were prostrated by the heat and brought
to the hospital
Two new big Krupp guns, one six-1nch
and the other eight-inch. which were
found buried at Malolos, will be mounted.
The Americans have also found 2I,0o1
silver dollars.
PROCLAMATION is EFFECTIVE.
The belief is spreading among the resi-
dents here that the effect of the capture
of MaIolos, the former rebel capital, fol-
lowed by the proclamation of the United
States Philippine commission, will be to
convince the natives that Aguinaldo' s
bubble has burst.
Dr. Schurman, president of the commits
sion. said: 1.-THE Filipinos have been
asking INCREASINGLY what do you propose
TO do for u.s. the proclamation answers
the question, and 1t should satisfy them. y
Col. Charles DENLY, member of the
&C mmission, and former minister to
China, remarked: ut Is the most I'M
portant proclamation since the Declara-
ton of Independence. Spanish, Tagalo
and English versions have been printed,
and 1t is proposed to circulate them about
Malolos, and at all the seaports. They
will be sent to the lake towns by gun
boats,
The commission of Spaniards under
the leadership of Senior Antonio Fuset,
president of the Spanish club, has had
little success with the expedition organ
lied to deliver money and stores to the
Spanish prisoners. The members of the
expedition was obliged to give the goods
to the Filipino officers at Batangas. The
boat had letter from Aguinaldo direct
sion, but Gen. Trias, commanding the
Filipino forces in the southern provinces
and his subordinates, declined to recog-
nize Aguinaldos authority. The Span
iards refused to accept the invitations
to land, having been warned that they
would be held for ransom. Maj. Rafael
Morales, the former Spanish governor Of
the island Of Mindoro, was brought on
board the ship for an interview. He was
so weak that he tainted, and at parting
he said: II shall never see you again"
WANT PRISONERS RELEASED.
The Filipinos thought the Red Cross
flag was the American flag. A commits
sion whose members are Of all the ma
tionalities in Manila, headed by John Nc
Leod, an English man, has been organ
lied for the purpose of interviewing the
Filipino leaders, and petitioning for the
release of the prisoners In the name Of
humanity.
DR.. Schurmann says that, after
months personal observation and inter-
views with different classes Of people,
he finds that the insurrection had it's
origin and strength in the Tagalo pro-
vinces around Manila The remaining
provinces Of north and south Luzon are
peopled by different races and the rest
of the archipelago are not natural allies
of the Tagalos, but unfriendly rivals
During the months while the treaty of
peace was being negotiated at Paris the
Tagalos sent bodies of from fifty to
200 men to all the other provinces to
seize governments as robbers hold up
trains. The liberty Of the populations
was constrained, supremacy was en-
forced as there were no American forces
present to expel the Tagalos, he said the
recent victories have had a good effect
everywhere. With a growth of a gen.
eral feeling of security, the populat tions
will. doubtless declare for the United
States
'The Philippine people," says DR..
Schurmann, seem discouraged by the
valorous. swift and irresistible move
ments Of the American troops, against
which their elaborate defensive works
were useless
SHOTS EXCHANGED.
Gen. Macarthur reconnoitered this
morning, with the Montana regiment
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