Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-08
They USED ARTILLERY
One Of the Tinclad Gunboats Struck by
the First Shot.
WASHINGTON TROOPS IN THE LEAD
Gunboats and Artillery Shell the Trenches
Before the Charge-Rebels Take Refuge
Arms.


Of the Washington troops, under Col
onel Whalley, on board cascoes, were
towed from Pasig to Morong on Sun
day and landed under cover of well
directed fire from the "tinclad" army
gunboats Napidan and Cavadonga.
The rebels, who were entrenched in
the outskirts of the town, reserved
and in the open. The American ar
tillery opened fire on the insurgents
and drove them from their positions,
killing nine of them and wounding
five. The Washington troops then
took the town, the rebels fleeing to
the hills.
While the Americans were on their
way to Morong the insurgents opened
fire from a shore battery at Ancona,
their first shot striking the Cavadon-
gas awning aft at a range of $500
yards. The Napidan also was fired
on.
NEW YORK, June GA special to
the Journal and Advertiser from
Washington says: Captain Joseph
Henry Grimes has made a complete
confession of the part he took in aid
ing the Filipinos and the document
is in the possession of the govern
ment. He is a British subject, born
in Hong Kong twenty-nine years ago.
He was Office manager at Shanghai
for L. Steitzel & Co. and there became
acquainted with the agents of the Fill
Pine rebellion. On June Grimes
firm contracted with Agoncillo to sup
ply 5000 Mauser rifles, two Maxim
guns, 100000 cartridges, the steam
er Pasig and provisions, etc, at
cost of $13S,000. The outfit was
seized by the British authorities at
the request of the Spanish consul.
Then. says Grimes, B. F. Sylvester,
a member of his firm, arranged with
Edward Bedloe, American consul at
Canton, to send the arms to that point
by means of false sale tt. the Chinese
government. The Chinese viceroy
was to reject them, but as it turned
out he seized $500 rifles and kept
them to suppress a rebellion in his
owr territory.
The local authorities refusing per-
mission for the Pasig to sail, it was
transferred from British to American
register by Consul Bedloe, it's name
changed to the Abbey and Bedloe
cleared it and the supplies for the Fill
ipinOs for Singapore. On August 27
the Abbey, flying the American flag,
and commanded by Captain G. w.
Ellis, an American citizen left Wham-
poa, fifteen miles from Canton. On
board was Lewis Leonard Etzell the
American citizen, whose mission it
was to teach the Filipinos how to
use the Maxim guns.
Sylvester, Grimes asserts, falsely
told him that the facts about the eX-
petition were known to Admiral Dew
ey and Consul General Wildman.
The cargo was taken to Santangas,
eighty miles south of. Manila and
turned over to the insurgent COVER
nor of that town. 1t consisted of 496
rifles, 100000 cartridges two Maxim
guns and 100000 rounds of Maxim
ammunition.
After discharging the cargo, Grimes
went to BacOr, where he met Agui-
naldo, who said he wanted more am
munition. Grimes returned to Hong
Kong, but was not successful in his
further plans. Sylvester visited Agu-
inaldo and failed to conclude a con-
tract with him to pro.ure arms in
Germany.
1T will be seen by the above state
ment," Grimes says, that both Syl-
vester and Etzell plotted on American
soil against the American govern
ment."
The Abbey was seized about Sep
TENDER rs last by the American rev.
enue cutter McCulloch, which was at
tached to Admiral Dewey's fiotilla.
Grimes was arrested in Manila on Oc-
tober 5.
The sultan of Sulu, who, is was sup
posed was favorably disposed toward
the United States, it now turns out
has imported a large quantity of
arms from Singapore, via Sandake.,
with view to resisting the Ameri
cans. These arms he has stored on
the Island of Siasi and he is raising
a force of Sepoys at Singapore.
1t is believed that the decision of
the sultan to fight the United States
is the result of Bray's mission to Sim
gapore in April. Joseph Henry
Grimes has a suit in the supreme
court against Aguinaldo, through his
attorneys, Agoncillo and Lichanco,
for $4,000, which he alleges is one
fourth of the profits of the Abbey eX
petition to which he is entitled.