The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-26
.F|L|P|NOS ARE ON THE FIGHT
AFTER SEVERAL DEFEATS.
Show Much 'spirit-Have Avoided the
Censor-News Comes by Way OF Hong
Kong-Have an Army OF Seven Thous-
and Cayit e-MtIitary Rule.

Manila, Aug. 24.-The Filipino rebels
appear to retain much more fighting spir-
it than might be expected after their re-
cent San Fernando experiences and Gen
eral Lawton's drubbing in the south.
After giving up San Fernando, with
feeble struggle, they entrenched them
selves at Angeles, working for several
days and impressing non-combatants into
the work, thus saving armed men for
fighting. They engaged Lieutenant Col
onel Smiths regiment and the artillery
warmly for four hours, making oAe of the
most stubborn resistances of the cam
paign, but the Americans are indebted to
the usual poor craftsmanship of the Fill
pinos as well as their own strategy for
their small losses.
In Cavite province, where it was sup
posed the rebels had been scattered and de-
moralized beyond recuperation, they have
assembled an army of several thousand
After the San Fernando engagement the
rebels attempted to deter the Americans
from further advance nOrthward, menac-
ing the railroad communications Several
hundred OF General Pillars men crossed
the MO OlduQc VtLMtSl LHC 1llSllNdh Oub
posts towns and threatened Balinag,
Quingat and other places with small
American garrisons, while during Sunday
and Monday nights smaller bands tried to
tear up the railroad tracks at several
points between Biggaa and Malolos. Re-
Inducements of American troops, how
ever were sent along the railroad from
Manila to San Fernando, while forces at
, Balinag and Quingat sailed out against
General Pillars men and the rebels were
, easily driven away. In brush between
the Filipnos and Americans during three
days the Americans lost several men,
while the Filipinos' loss was heavy.
, Otis and the Correspondents.
OF these operations the Associated Press
: correspondent was permitted to send only
e inadequate dispatches, dictated verbatim
: by Major General Otis. The censor writes
sterotyped official phrases and adjective:
y into the dispatches tending to magnify the
: American operations and minimize the op
t position Otis says the newspapers arr
not public institutions, but private enter
i prises and correspondents are only herr
, on suffrage.
;. All reports from rebel territory agre
that the scarcity of food is increasing ant
4 the rebel commissioners at Aparty ant
t, other points refused to obey Aguinaldo'
orders in regard to closing the ports he'll
by rebels against American ships and sa
any ship bringing stores will be welcomed
- Several ships from Manila are now at thes
u ports.
II Hundreds of people come into Manil
daily and return to the rebel lines wit
IL food and other commodities. The guard
- stationed along the road reported tina
"a 5000 persons passed through the lines i
N three days and that 40 tons of rice wei
carried out in small parcels on the sam
ID road in 10 days. Much of this undoubteC
lS ly goes to aid the rebels, but the author
ID ties permit this traffic from motives
lg charity toward the women and childre
who are undoubtedly suffering.
Id General Macarthur is establishing mil
he tary governments in the villages north
ne Manila. The mayor of Balinag, the fir
in town where Lawton established the san
rule, who was supposed to be one of Il
h most friendly and trustworthy of the n
10 tives, has been placed in Jail charged vii
er arranging with the rebels for an attaC
IN. on the town.
at The American troops have been wit
drawn from all that part of the countl
"a. which was half cleared of rebels in Il
nt expedition of the Americans in June La
~ The rebels have returned to San Mate
- which was abandoned for the third tin
ro after its recent capture.
1t is alleged that half the howitzer al
= munition used during the fight at Angel
~ was defective and failed to explode.
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