The sun., 1902-07-12
The suns" Correspondent ou the capture
of Mantis.

To THE EDITOR or THr SrN SIR ten
Thomas VI Anderson, who commanded the
first et tped tlon Of troog- sent To Manila Ray
after Deweys victory over Mon 10 20 squadron
'hc-c, has "sll~d IN question the Adrtrais
sta'emen, taat the surrender Of the city of
Manila vas made To HIM on Ags -. is9s,
according 20 an arrangement which had been
effected between Dewey and Gen Jaud.nas,
VINO succeeded TO the spanish command
after Captnin-Gcneral Augustin was re-
leved ten Anderson declares that the
attack of ~. army on Mania on AUG ~,
which he commanded In person. and the
tactical order for which he drew up ~ com
plisucr with the directions Of Gen Merritt.
who was thcn IN command of our land forces
IN ,hc Philippines. was q real and genuine
Rnsir.' m,ie IN ANTICIPATION Of bona tde
rrri'"n'" -,.
saws Ten Anderson We lost i?7 Killed and
wounded u ~" city vas surrendered ns
q result of definite understanding. how
definite was ~ Was " that American sol
diers were 70 10 sacrificed for the honor Of
SpsIri
ten Anderson admits thA, no douh, the
Admiral and ten Merritt both thought they
had made an agreement with the spanish
authorities nv ~hi"n tho CITY could h@ taken
without hlood-h'd but as TO this. both
t,e Admiral and the commanding General
must have been nlSin'prnsd
,dmrnl Dewey revealed no secret and
publ-hrd no news when h" told III" senate
Committee about this arrangement for 'he
surrender ~ Nsni.i. G"r anderson IN the
contrary outstanding 'hhl. dispatches
srn' 20 THr SJN and to other newsns I-er>
from JaNIt" some time h"iur" IN" surrender
of Manila announced that nesot lat onS we're
going on p.sp,tch"~ pr.nted m THt SrN
Of AUG !? Iss-. declared that th.r" was every
prospect that the negotiations would h.
successful IN" full accounts ~ ~" con-
dU'on oi -" ctr, sent hN maj, CAV" I'at-
t'culAr-, Of th" ucsotiat oh- and de- 'lat'd
tnen taat the attack rad h~en 4 hurl.-uu-
Nevertheless ten Merritt ~su-d general
order Cobsrsiulating tue army on ~" cap
lure ~ assault 81 ~. CIV "l MANI" li nna
1. sore subject to-day with most OF tue
army Officers who were 9re,~nt on tI" o''A-
The fac, Is that Admiral Dewey had he
lieved from the start that Manila could h"
taken without III" loss ~ q man m action,
and he VAS much di~iurbssi hv the n"sSile>-
sscrirce Of our soldiers ~ the atta'k aud pr'-
hminary skitmish"- II was perfectly ap-
narnn, to every American IN Manila BaN
lJ~ compelled To surrender vh"neNrr Dewey
said the wort W" hsd N" guns 10 fore"
the surrender or d"-trov the place IN"
Spaniar,i. Knew II n We'd ~ 49, did II Wa-
also apparent that ~ IN" Spaniard- chose
10 r.rls, th. army, N,ihon' ngN"' : NIP
not equipped with HIGHT arIill"ry, and, an
less they chose to gtisk.der Agutnsldo- men
A.. allies they w"r- outnumb-rst bN ~"
o. rrison The Spininrd- were occupy ing
a walled town They had Mau-sf rr's.
fairly good artillery. and limitls-s amiuu-
nttinn Most ~ our men Vsr. ttm"i NI'n
Sprin gfi.ld rifles beweN'- help WtS ab-o.
lutslV necessary, and 'v-ry body knew o.
ON the other hand the only help Dewey u"'rl''l
was IN garrisonIug IN" city after "a" sur
render
DuTing the progress of the negotiations
| tn. Spanisrds continually urged upon Dewey
the nece-~ity Of having tho tr'ri'Hn so.
di.rN advance with utmost taIudltN when
IN. tifn.. come. ~ order to- keep out the IN.
sur gents whom both sides agre,-l to prevent
from entering the city b-aev submitted
a colnr.d drawing OF the nag- he would noI-t
IN his rtsnRl demanding tho surrender h"
SpanlHrd- returned "A map showing wh.f"
the white flag would to rHis.d lher" was
10 he a -bomhardmrnt. that - tTu" lh-
character of ~ ~ shown 10y thr fact that fh'
Ealr.s went into action f1rtng. by order.
~ 7,.p yards. although her sunn-r~ knew
the range ~as not a third that When they
Probably teen Anderson dad not know all
this ten Merritt did. but aI.psr-ntly
plaCed no faith IN ~ Spsninrds VINO were
In position to know declared aftrrwArd
that u our men had advanced a. RAPIDLY
as was desired they would have suffered
no los. Hut they went slowly lii. tui-
pinos undertook Ia get IN III. SpaniaTis
re-i-tsd, and Ne became involved IN tn. FIGHT
Gen Anderson says IL seems harsh to call
Aguinaldo a UaIin ger and looter Per
hap- hr has forgotten the flipinos' demand
on him Tor a share IN the booty OF war
NV loRk, July u OSCAR h DAVIS