The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-23
THE FILlPlN0S ARE BRAVE.
APPEAR UNDAINTED ny THEIR
RECENT DRUBnINGs.

Made n Most stubborn Resistance
Against Col. Smith-Other Opera
lions Indicate Their SpIrIt-Otis
Dictates Press Dispntches-says
Correspondents Are There on suf-
fcrance-LnciS of Food BEGINNING
10 Trouble the Insurgents.
Manila, Aug. 10. via Hong Kong Aug. o.
The Filipino rebels appear 30 retain much
more of fghting spirit chan might be ex-
pected after their recent San Fernando cx-
periences and Gen. Lawton's drubbngs in
the South.
After giving up san Fernando with a
feeble struggle, they entrenched them
selves al Angeles. working for several
days and impressing non-combatants into
the work. thus saving the armed men for
the hghtng. They engaged Lieut. Col.
Smiths regiment and the artillery warmly
for four hours. making one Of the m st
stubborn resistances of the campaign. But
the Americans are indebted TO the usual
poor Workmanship OF the Fiiplnos as well
as to their own strategy for their small
loss
In the province of Cavite, where II WAS
supposed the rebels had been scattered AMI
demoralizcd beyond recuperation, they
have assembled an army Of several thou
sand 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 a
further advance northward by menacng
the railroad communications. Several
| hundred of Gen. Pio del Pillars men
| crossed the Rio Grande between the Amer
| lean outpost towns and threatened Baliuag,
| Quinqua and other places with small
| American garrisons, while, during sun
| day and Monday nights smaller bands
tried to tear UP the railroad tracks at sew
eral points between Bigaa and Malolos.
Relnforcements of American troops.
| however were sent along the railroad
from Manila TO san Fernando, while tho
| forces at Baliuag and Quinqua sailed out
| against Gen Pho del Pillars men and the
| Insurgents were easily driven away In
! brushes between these Flllpinos and tho
| Americans during three days the Amerl-
cans lost several men, while the Filipinos'
loss was heavy,
or those operations the Associated Press
| correspondent was permitted 10 send only
an Inadequate dispatch, dictated verbatim
| by Mai Gen Otis. The censor writes
stereotyped official phrases and adjectives
| into the dispatches, tending TO magnify
| the American operations and to minimize
the opposition. Gen. Otis says newspapers
are not public Institutions but private
l'enterprses and the correspondents are
only here on sufferance.
| All reports from the rebel territory ara
that the scarcity Of food Is increasing,
| ana that the rebel commanders at Apar-
rti and other points refuse to obey Ag-
ulnaldo's orders in regard 10 closing the
ports held by the rebels against American
ships and say that any ship bringing
stores will be welcomed. Several ships
from Manila are now at such ports. Hun
dreds OF people come into Manila daily and
| return to the rebel lines with food and
other commodities. The guards stationed
along one road report that 800 persons
passed through the lines in three days,
and that forty-five tons of rice were car
red out In small parcels, on the same
road in ten days. Much OF this undoubt-
cdly goes 10 aid the rebels, but the author
ities permit this trafic from motives OF
charity towards the women and children,
VINO are undoubtedly suffering.
Gen. Macarthur is establishing munci-
pal governments la the villages north OF
Manila. The Mayor of Baiiuag, the first
town where Gen. Lawton established the
same rule, who was supposed 10 be one OF
the most friendly and trustworthy OF the
natives has been placed in jail, charged
with arranging with the rebels for an at
tack on the town. The American tFools
have been Withdrawn from all that part
OF the country which was har cleared of
rebels In the expedition of the Americans
In June last.
The rebels have returned to San Mateo,
which was abandoned for the third time
after ils recent capture. II Is alleged that
more than half the Howitzer ammunition
during the fight at Angeles was defective
aud failed TO explode.