The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1899-09-02
MANILA NEWS
IS DOCTORED
Our Losses Said to Be More Than
Otis Will Admit.
GENERAL DICTATES DISPATCHES
newspapers Are Not Public In
situations" Says 0ener-
al Otis.

A cable dispatch from Manila,
via Hong Kong, states that the Fill
pinos appear to retain much more OF
fighting spirit than might be expected
after their recent San Fernando expe-
risnces and General Lswton's drub-
bings in the south.
After giving up San Fernando with
feeble struggle they entrenched
themselves at Angeles. working for
several days and pressing non combat
ants into the work, thus saving the
armed men for the fighting. They
engaged Lieutenant Colonel Smiths
regiment and the artillery warmly for
four hours, maintaining one OF the
m ,st stubborn resistances OF the cam
paign. Bat the Americans are indebt-
ed to the usual poor Workmanship Of
the Filipinos as we'll as their own
strategy for their small losses.
In the province Of Cavite, where II
was supposed the rebels had been scat
tered and demoralized beyond recuper-
ation, they have assembled on army Of
several thousand men, distributed
among the important 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
communication. Several hundred OF
General Pho del Pillars men crossed
thn Rto nroodn hak-aoc kha M o,,ooo
outpost towns and threatened Baliuag,
Quingua and other places, with small
American garrisons, while, during
Sunday and Monday nights, smaller
bands tried to tear up the railroad OF
several points between Bigaa and Ma.
lolos.
In the brushes between the Fill.
pinos and the Americans during three
days the Americans lost several men,
while the Filipinos' loss .was heavy.
OF these engagements the Associ-
ated Press correspondent was permit
ted 10 send only an adequate dispatch,
dictated verbatim by Major General
Otis. The censor writes stereotyped
official phrases and adjecives into the
dispatches, tending to magnify the
American operations and to minimize
the opposition.
General Otis says newspapers are
not public institutions, but private en-
terprises, and the correspondents are
only there on suffrance.
All reports from the rebel territory
agree that the scarcity OF food is in.
creasing and TINT the rebel command.
ers at APART and other points refuse
to obey Aguinaldo's orders in regard
TO closing the ports held by the rebels
against American ships and say that
any ship bringing stores will be vel.
come. Several ships from Manila are
now at such ports.
Hundreds Of people come into Ma
Mia daily and return TO the rebel lines
with food and other commodities. The
guards stationed along one road re-
ported that Ave thousand persons
passed through the lines in three days
and that forty-Ave 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,
uus th0 uubuoAHIob peILuit tuio ub4io
from motives Of charity towards the
women and children, who are I'M
doubtedly suffering.
General Macarthur is establishing
municipal governments in villages
north Of Manila. The mayor Of ..Ba-
liaug, the first town where General
Lawton established the same rule, who
was supposed to be one OF most friend
y and trustworthy Of the natives, has
been placed in jail, charged with ar
ranging with the rebels for an attack
on the town.
The American troops have been
Withdrawn from oil that part Of the
country which was half cleared OF
rebels In the operation Of the Ameri-
cans In June last.