The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1899-08-26
Fighting Spirit of the Filipinos
Said to Be Far From
Broken ~ f..
In Spite of the Recent Repulses
and the Allegations Of
49,. Otis.
Press Dispatches Dictated Yer:
batim by the Commanding.
General.

UolAAu Uy tuc COMMANDING
General. .~
MANILA, Aug. 10, via Hong Kong,
Aug. 2S.-The Filipino rebels appear to
retain much more Of a fighting spirit
than might be expected after their re-
cent San Fernando experiences and
General Lawton's drubbings in the
South. ~. a.
After giving up San Fernando with a
feeble struggle, they entrenched them.
selves at Angeles, working for several
days and impressing noncombattants
into the work, thus saving the armed
men for the fighting. They engaged
Lieutenant Colonel Smiths regiment
warmly for four hours, making one Of
the most stubborn resistances of the
campaign. But the Americans are in
debted to- the usual poor Workmanship
OF the Filipinos as we'll as their strategy
for their small losses. s e..
Reassembling in CavIte.
In the province of Cavite, where it
was supposed the rebels had been scat
tered and demoralized beyond recupera-
ton, they have assembled an 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 Amer
leans from further advance northward
by menacing the railroad comm unica-
tions. Several hundred of General Pho
del Pillars men crossed the Rio Grande
between the American outpost towns,
and threatened Baliuag, Quingua and
other places with small American gar
risons, while during Sunday and Mon
day nights smaller bands tried to tear
up the railroad tracks at several points
between Bigaa and Malolos. Reinforce
ments of American troops, however,
were sent along the railroad from
Manila to San Fernando, while the
forces at hBaliuag and rQHingua sailed
Sout against General Pic del Pillars
men, and the rebels were easily driven
away.
In brushes between these Filipinos
and the Americans during three days,
the Americans lost several men, while
the Filipino's loss was heavy.
Dispatches wsre Censored.
OF their operations, the Associated
Press correspondent was permitted to
send only an inadequate dispatch, die
tated verbatim by Major General Otis.
The censor writes stereotyped official
phrases end adjectives into the dis
patches, tending to magnify the Ameri-
can operations and to minimize the op-
position.
General Otis says newspapers are not
public institutions. but private enter
prises, and the correspondents are only
here on suffrance.
All reports from the rebel territory
agree that the scarcity Of food is in
creasing add that the rebel command
ers at Aparri and other points refuse to
obey Aguinaldo's order in regard to
closing the ports held by the rebels
against American ships and say that
any ship bringing stores will be well
coined. Several ships from Manila are
now at such ports.
Allowed to Help the Filipinos.
Hundreds of people come into Manila
daily and return to the rebel lines with
food and other commodities. The
guards stationed along one road report
ed that {, 900 persons passed through the
lines in three days, ands that 45 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,
but the authorities permit this traffic
from motives of charity toward the
women and children. who are undoubt-
edly suffering.
General Macarthur is establishing
municipal governments in the villages
north of Manila.
The mayor Of Baliuag, the first town
where General Lawton established the
same rule, who was supposed to be one
OF the most friendly and trustworthy of
the natives. has been placed in Jail,
charged with arranging with the rebels
for an attack ON the town.
The American troops have been
withdrawn from all that part of the
country which was half cleared Of
rebels in the expedition of the Ameri-
cans in June last.
The rebels have returned to San Ma
teo, which was abandoned for the third
time after its recent capture.
It's alleged that more than half the
howitzer ammunition used during the
tight at Angeles was defective and
failed to explode. I.