The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-25
MORE HOSTILE
FILIPINOs AND sPANIARDs NOW
TALKING IN SAME STRAIN.
AEuinaIdO's HOnE-KOnG JuntO De-
nOunces Action of Americans as
High-Handed and VexatiOus.
10000 REBELS UNDER ARMS
AND NEARLY FIFTY MANN GUNS AT
THE MALOLOs CAMP.
Filipino Congress VetOes Annexation,
and AgItatOrs Call President Nc
KinIey's Commission "A HumbuG.
CLASH POSSIBLE 1T MANILA
GEN. OTIS NOT sANGUTNE OF AVOID
ING SERIOUS TROUBLE.
Senior AgOnciIIO's Latest COmmunica-
tiOn to the State Department-SicI<
spaniards Set Free.
CLASH POSSIBLE 1T MANILA
GEN. OTIS NOT sANGUINE OF AVOID
ING SERIOUS TROUBLE.
Senior AgOnciIIO's Latest COmmunica-
tIOn to the State Department-Sick
Spaniards Set Free.

HoNG-KONG, Jan. 24-The members of
lowing statement:
1.-THE purchase by the American author
ities at Hong-Kong of a number of steam
launches for river work in the Philippine ISL
ands is hlgh-handed, unnecessary and vexa-
tious.
"Domiciliary visits throughout Manila are
exasperating the Filipinos. Their suspicious
are aroused by such actions. The dispatch
of reinforcements is incompatible with
peace, and the appointment of commission
is only preteXt to gain time.
"The American secret police is acting Of
fensively towards the Filipiros at Hong
Kong, who are British subjects.
THE Filipino congress at Malolos has
unanimously vetoed annexation
Advices from Manila received here under
Gate of Jan. 20 say the Independence news
paper) has issued supplement containing a
dispatch purporting to come from Malolos,
the seat of the rebel government. 1t COM
ments on the appointment of the commits
sion, and says: 1.-The Filipinos naturally
suspect this is a new attempt to humbug.
Both Dewey and Spencer Pratt promised us
Independence if the Filipino republic was
ble. The Filipinos are disiIlusioned. They
believe the commission is a ruse to gain
time tlh they have accumulated formidable
forces, when America, abusing her strength,
will begin war to ratify her sovereignty"
The INDEPENDENTS then alleges that all the
commissioners are partisans of colonial ex-
pansion and incidentally asserts that the
archbishop also favors annexation with
the sole object of gaining the sympathies of
the winning side, immaterial which, in the
{ofa etc Of
The Filipinos of Caloocan and Gegalangin,
mistaking salutes exchanged between Brit
fish and German war ships on Jan. IS,
moved three thousand feet to the front in
order of battle, covering the adjacent coun-
try, but they did not attack the American
lines.
Reports from the interior Indicate that
Aguinaldo's authority is now generally rec
ognized. Every available male is being re-
cruited and arms depots are being estab-
nshed at San Bernandino, Trinidad and 9TH
er large towns. The surrounding country
is being levied on for supplies and the Fill
ipino troops are living on the fat of the
land, while the native villagers are COM
PEELED to subsist on rice. There is some fric-
tion between the Filipino civil and military
authorities, but they are united on the ques-
tlon of independence.
1t is estimated that there are fully 10000
Filipinos under arms, and it is said that
there are nearly fifty Maxim guns at Ma
lolos, some of them having been recently
acquired. The Filipino military authorities
are convinced, they say, that the Americans
will be unable to work effectively outside of
Manila in the event of hostilities. hence they
feel confident in the future. Many of the
Filipino officers complain. of alleged discour-
teous treatment on the part of Americans
at Manila.