The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-14

+, ed at 200. Few Americans were killed.
The Americans began a vigorous ad-
vance all along the line this morning.
Sunday and were 500 pressing back
the insurgents in every direction, main
tanning steadily their advanced posi-
tons. and capturing the villages of IA
Juan Del Monte, Santa Ana, San Pc
dro. Macati, Santa Mesa and Lomin.
THE splendid police system prevent
ed a general outbreak in the city.
| though several soldiers were attacked
| by natives in the streets Lieutenant
| Charles Hogan and Sergeant Wall were
shot by three natives, the former being
| seriously wounded and the latter
| slightly. Lieutenant Colonel Cotton
was attacked by a native with a sword
while riding in a carriage TO the front.
He killed his assailant with his revolv-
er. A sharp-shooter within the Ameri-
can lines shot and killed Il sergeant
, While he was sitting at a window of
the SECOND reserve hospital. Colonel
William G. Smith died Of apoplexy.
Many of the insurgents were driven
into the Pasig river and drowned. Sew
era1 hundred were taken prisoners"
In a subsequent telegram the follow
ing statements are made:
Last nights Saturday and toGay's
Sunday engagements have proved a
veritable slaughter for the Philippines,
their killed being reported as amount
1 lilS I LiIOuSdIIoS. HE AIIGIlcdH loICES
could hardly " been better disposed.
1t is now known that the attack was
fully expected, n that every prepara-
ton had been made to meet the con-
tingency.
I Firing slackened at noon, ~(Sunday,)
the enemy being apparently democrat
lied. The American troops are, how
ever, fully equipped to meet a posi-
BILE attack tonight. o
,"Aguinaldo's private secretary has
heen arrested as a spy in Manila. Per-
| feet quiet now reigns in the city. More
than a hundred wounded Philippines
| taken from the trenches are being cared
for in the American hospitals"
WHAT THE LONDON PRESS SAY.
London, February 5.-The Times,
commenting editorially upon the dis
patches from Manila, says: The in
! surgent attack was apparently pre-
meditated, and the presumption is
strong that Aguinaldo is responsible for
the bloodshed. The really important
point is whether the attack is or is not
the beginning of an organized attempt
to fling off American rule.
w imagine the news will strength
en- the determination of America to
take up the white mans burden"
The Daily Graphic says: by this act
of folly the insurgents have not only
courted defeat, but have r~egularized the
I DOSlllOli VI III iCdIiS III lltc IL
pelago, and have probably obtained for
President Mckinley a free hand in the
expansion policy which the senate has
seemed reluctant to give him."
The Daily Chronicle says: THE Phil
ippinos have helped to assure the rat
ification of the peace treaty.
The Standard says: "The paucity Of
news and the boldness of the rebels in
their attack upon Manila are ominous,
and it is not unlikely that the Ameri-
cans will have a serious and toilsome
campaign over the scattered islands"
The Daily News says: THE fact that
American blood has been shed will Sc
cure, we imagine, the immediate rati-
fcation of the peace treaty. The Phil
ippinOs have shown their u~nf1tness for
! self-government at the very outset by
a rash and untimely manifestation"
WHY THE PHILIPPINES FOUGHT.
London, February 5.-A representa-
tive of the Associated Press saw the
London representative of Aguinaldo
this evening. He did not express sur
prise at the news from the Philippine
islands,, but declared that the Philippi-
nos at Manila were suspicious of the
attitude of the United. States and had
formed the opinion that it was better
to fight before the Americans were re-
infOrced.
The representative added that Ma
bini, the head of the Philippine cabi-
net, and his colleagues, were convinced
that if the Americans were beaten
now, public opinion in the United States
would 'insist upon the maintenance of
Philippine independence"
PHILIPPINES IN MANILA
WEAKEN.
Manila, February 6.-9 O'Clock, a. M
The Philippines have apparently each
ed the conclusion that the Americans
mean business now that the barriers
were removed, as there were no further
hostilities las night and no attempt
made to recover lost ground. 1t is pos
sible. however, that they are following
the tactics they employed against the
S~paniards, and will merely lie off for
a few days to recuperate their forces
before returning to the attack.
MILITARY MAP OF THE BATTLE.
Washington, February 5.-Adjutant
General Corbin, after reading the AS
ISOLATED Press dispatch from Manila,
expressed the opinion that practically
all of the troops now there were en-
gagged in Saturdays conflict. From a
general knowledge of the location OF
the American troops, and with the aid
of a military map he believed that the
men were stretched out in a line that
extended probably fourteen miles to the
north, east and south of the city. Con
fronting them were the insurgent out
l pOSlS anu StTOuS uOIuS. Inc military
maps are rather incomplete for a care
full study of the battle as told in the
press dispatches, only foul or five OF
the points mentioned being indicated
Caloacan, where much of the fighting
occurred, is about five miles north OF
Manila, and a short distance inland
apparently something more han a mile
Malabot is abou two miles to the
northeast of Caloacan, on the waite
front. 1t was from this place that thu
cruiser Charleston and the gunboat
Concord opened fire on the Philippine:
at Caloacan. Pace, one of the villages
where the California Int Washington
regiments made a splendid showing, i:
a suburb, a mile from Manila 1t ap
peared to be a we'll laid out town, will
streets, after the American fashion, ana
is to the southeast of the city of Ma
Mia, just near the Pasig river. Malate
from which the monitor Monadnocl
opened fire. is about two miles south
of the capital city, along the coast o
| the Bay of Manila