The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1898, Page 1

This Paper not ' to be taken from the Library.++++ The VOLUME LXXXIV.—NO. 52. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1898. : PRICE FIVE CENTS. PHILIPPINE REBELS ATTACKED THE OUTPOSTS OF MANILA IN GREAT FORCE TRIED TO RUSH THE TRENCHES But They Were Repulsed With a Loss of Four Hundred. Although They Withstood Many Assaults the Condition of the Spaniards Is Most Critical. Epecial Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. by James Gordon Bennett. MANILA, July 17, via Hongkong, July 21.—The rebels attacked the Span- ish outposts in force on Friday. The attack was simultaneous on Malate, Santa Ava, Santa Mesa, Balic and Ga- galamerin. It is said that 20,000 rebels engaged in the assault. The result was| favorable to the Spaniards, who held all| their positions with only fifty killed and wounded. It is estimated the rebel| losses were 400. The rebels tried to rush the trenches, which were well| protected. The Spaniards kept up a| steady fire, and repulsed every attack| of the rebels. The attack was repeat-| edly renewed and lasted several hours. The attack was renewed this morning| with the usual result. News of the loss of Cervera’s fleet, which was brought by Copyrighted, 1898, BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANCIS V. GREENE, U. S. A., IN COMMAND OF THE SECOND EXPEDITION TO THE PHILIPPINES. In Speaking of General Greene, Previous to That Officer’s Departure for Manila, General Merritt said: ‘“General Greene Goes as My Special Representative. He Is Familiar With All My Plans and Is Thoroughly Qualified to Take Charge of Military Affairs Upon His Arrival. He Is an Able and Accomplished Officer.” AMERICANS MAY ATTACK MANILA AT ANY HOUR Transports of the Second Expedition Have Arrived. Four Deaths on the Voyage—Fifty In- surgents Slaughtered. 1ese warship, caused a great panic here. It had been hed from every pulpit and announced officially here that ival of Cervera’s and Camara’s fleets with troops was The discovery of this frau# will have a bad effect on the nish troops, who are already disheartened and consider the T'he food supply holds out, but the quality is The meat is mostly horseflesh. The poorer classes are g rats and dogs. The public health is fairly good. The pumping station of the waterworks has been taken by the rebels, but the tanks are still held by the Spaniards. The water is turned on for two hours daily in Manila. A week’s sup- ply only remains in the tanks. | Reinforcements for the Americans have arrived, but there are no signs of an immediate American attack on Manila. Aguinaldo has appointed native government officers in the. province, who are collecting taxes. % | 1e hopeless. ron, one of the vessels of which should | be a battle-ship, probably the Oregon, | and he proposes to place him In a posi- | tion to successfully meet any emer- | ILOILO’S GOVERNOR ALL READY TO SAIL| the New York | 8DCY that may arise. Commodore by James Gor- | Watson's squadron will be ordered in Sihe irade| readiness to reinforce Dewey if a third | power should menace American inter- | h | ests. e | DEWEY TO BOMBARD I THE FORTIFICATIONS | MANILA, July 18 (via Hongkong, July 21.)—Unless the Spaniards sur. | render in the meantime, Rear Admiral | Dewey will bombard the fortifications | of Manila by the end of this week, provided the troops are ready to take possession immediately, | The First Regiment is already in the fleld at Paranaque, two miles from | Manila. g, which arr! several thousand in the hills behind TLESHIP OR MAY GO TO MANILA NEW YORK, .Iu‘l_\' 2 Herald s force BAT A Washington : Rear Ad- e |DEWEY A DIPLOMAT g m squad- AS WELL AS A FIGHTER on excellent | g ‘ Long has such | WASHINGTON, July 2L—That Ad- | but whether | miral Dewey has the situation in the | not depends upon in Manila Bay | Philippines well in hand is exhibited | few weeks, The | by his telegrams, the last of which was G X that Admiral | recelved to-day, which, without boast- Dewey should have a stronger squad- | ing, simply reports, like the others that e BRRRRRURLRIURIBRARRIRLRINILIBRINIRN CAVITE, July 17 (via Hongkong, July 21).—The long expected attack on Manila may be made at any hour. The second expe- dition on transports China, Zealandia, Colon and Senator arrived here to=day (July 17) under convoy of the cruiser Boston. Lieutenant Lagelle of the Eighteenth Regiment, regulars, died of measles after leaving Honolulu. Three men also died on the transports. . The second expedition will be landed on the Manila side of the bay, close to the insurgent lines and south of Malate. Dis- embarkation will begin to-morrow. It is probable the entire First Brigade will be taken to the same place with General Greene in command. It is reported fifty insurgents were slain in an attack upon Malate to-day. They were hemmed in by the Spaniards in mak- ing a charge and slaughtered to the last man. General Aguin- aldo has moved his headquarters to Bacor, removing a portion of the Spanish prisoners from Cavite to provide accommo- dation for the American reinforcements. The second expedition hoisted the American flag on Wake Island on the way over. A e Y L T L L L P L LR LR L LR B R L LR EE L EEE ] la | Dewey’s diplomatic ability as the coun- | try has for his naval skill and cour- have gone before, that affairs are quiet | and satisfactory. The State Depart- | ment has come to have fully as great | sense of appreciating Admiral | age,and the best evidence of this is that it has not found it necessary up to this point to jntervene in any way, either to protec(‘ or to amend his works. The Navy Department has now dis- covered that the big double turreted monitor Monterey will not arrive at Cavite until August 5, that being the advice received at the department from the captain of the vessel when she touched at Honolulu. The admiral’'s announcement of the arrival of the second detachment of United States troops at Cavite has given great com- fort to the War Department, which was not altogether at ease concerning the first small expedition lying between Spaniards and the insurgents and without being able largely upon either. troops it will now be possible to de- mand the surrender of Manilg, but it to depend very ‘With these added | Is gathered here that our purpose is to defer such a movement until all the United States troops now afloat have arrived in Manila Bay, unless the at- titude of the insurgent forces prompt earlier action on the part of the Ameri- can commanders, military and naval. g AGUINALDO ORGANIZES A PHILIPPINE CABINET HONGKONG, July 2lL.—Letters re- celved here from Cavite, dated July 17, say that General Aguinaldo has organ- ized the Philippine Cabinet at Bakor, with the following personnel: President of the Council, Aguinaldo. General Secretary of War, Baldimiro Aguinal- do, nephew of General Aguinaldo. Secretary of the Interior, Leander Ibaria. Secretary of State, Mariano Trias. A Spanish steamer, the Vosoie, hav- ing on board a native crew from the Vizcaya Islands, southerners, is now in the hands of the insurgents. The crew revolted, killed the Spanish offi- cers and reached Tayabao, in the south- ern part of the island of Luzon, but there they quarreled with Tagalon in- surgents and returned to Ilollo, which is looked upon as indicating that the Vizcayas are unwilling to join the Tag- alonis. In any case, it is considered certain that the Philippine Islands will never be amalgamated and that they will never return to Spanish rule. Therefore the only alternative, in the O OJOJONOJORORIOJOROJOXORONOXS FORCROXOROJOROROXOYO Y oY OXOX RO X O YO OROXCROROXOXOROX O RO Yo XOJ CXOXOXOXOROXOYOXOXOXO) GArCl@’s RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED Probably a Ruse of the General to Gain Sympathy. & It Is Supposed That He Is Planning to Prove That Cubans Are Good Soldiers. OROJOXOXOJOXOXOJOROXORORONOROROXOROROROXOJORORORORORORORORORONORORORC SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 20.—General Garcia sent the fol- lowing letter to General Shafter: “Sir—On May 12 the Government of the Republic of Cuba ordered me, as commander of the Cuban army in the east, to co- operate with the American army, following the plans and obeying the orders of its commander. I have done my best, sir, to fulfill the wishes of my Government, and I have been until now one of your most faithful subordinates, honoring myself in carrying out your orders and instructions, as far as my powers have allowed me to do it. The city of Santiago surrendered to the American army, and news of that important event was given to me by per- sons entirely foreign to your staff. I have not been honored with a single word from yourself, informing me about the negotiations for peace or terms of capitulation by the Spaniards. The impor- tant ceremony of the surrender of the Spanish army and taking possession of the city by yourself took place later on, and I only knew of both events by public reports. “I was ne:ther honored, sir, with a kind word from you, in- viting myself or any officer of my staff to represent the Cuban army on the memorable occasion. Finally, I know you have left in power at Santiago the same Spanish authorities, whom for three years I have fought—enemies of the independence of Cuba. I beg to state that these authorities have never been elected to govern Santiago by residents of the city, but were appointed by royal decrees of the Queen of Spain. “I would nave agreed, sir, that the army under your com- mand should have taken possession of the city, garrison and forts. I would have given my warm co-operation to any meas- ure you may have deemed best under American military law to hold the city for your army and to preserve public order until the time comes to fulfill the solemn pledge of the people of the United States to establish in Cuba & free and independent gov- ernment, but when the question arises of appointing Spanish au- thorities in Santiago de Cuba, under the peculiar circumstances of our thirty years’ strife against Spanish rule, I cannot sez but with deepest regret that such authorities are not elected by the Cuban people, but are the same ones selected by the Queen of Spain, and hence are ministers to defend, against the Cubans, Spanish sovereignty. “A rumor too absurd to be believed, general, ascribes the reason of your measures and of the orders forbidding my army to enter Santiago to a fear of massacres and revenge against the Spaniards. Allow me, sir, to protest against even the shadow of such an idea. @We are not savages, ignoring the rules of civil- ized warfare. We are a poor, ragged army, as ragged and as poor as was the army of your forefathers in their noble war for indepenaence, but. as did the heroes of Santiago and Yorktown, we respect too deeply our cause to disgrace it with barbarism and cowardice. “In view of all these reasons, I sincerely regret to be una- ble to fulfill any longer the orders of my Government, and therefore I have tendered to-day to the commander-in-chief of the Cuban army, Major General Maximo Gomez, my resignation as commander of this section of our army. Awaiting his resolution I withdraw with my forces to the interior. Very respectfully yours, CALIXTO GARCIA.” [oXoXoxoXoXooXoRoXoXOXOROROROROROROROROROROROROROROJORONOROJORONOROXO] Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 189S, by James Gordon Bennett. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 20, by The Call Herald dis- patch boat to Port Antonio, Jamaica, July 21.—General Ca- lixto Garcia, in charge of the Cuban forces in the operations about Santiago, to-day notified General Shafter that he had tendered his resignation as commander of the insurgents in the eastern department. This action on the part of General Garcia is regarded as a ruse, and it is believed to have as its object the drawing of a vote of confidence from the leaders of the Cuban Junta. That General Garcia has not serfously iUnhed States that Cubans are worthy retired from the Cuban army is dis- | of confidence and respect as allfes. that he has just _ The American troops look upon the closed by the fact | Cubans as persons more fond of flesh [ONOXO] lofoJoJolololoyoyoloooyojofofoooJoJooyojoyoYoloYoreJoXoJoYoRoYoRoYoYoYoYoYoyoroYoro oo rololcrolelololoxoloxerolc) agreed with General Castillo to march | their Cuban forces against Holguin, and that both Garcia and Castello have joined in a request to General Gomez to unite with them in driving the Span- jards out of all other provinces prior to an American attack on Havana. General Garcia’s troops have been withdrawn to the mountains. I am able to give the true reasons for this deter- mination to no longer co-operate with the American forces. The Cuban gen- eral in this instance took this action while piqued over General Shafter’s refusal to let the Cubans enter Santi- ago. But he seems to have felt even more keenly the contempt in which his command is being held by the soldiers of the United States. Garcia and his principal officers seem to thorougnly realize that the Cubans had not shone brilliantly as warriors in the Santiago opinion of the Informed people here, is [ campaign. He now intends to act in- for foreign rule, American or British. | dependently and demonstrate to the pots than of feats of arms. It {s an- | nounced to-day that Generals Garcia | and Castillo are marching toward Hol- | guin. | A serious question has arisen relative | to the collection of custom duties in the new American port of Santiago. ‘When the captains of several American | vessels attempted to land their car- goes they were informed they could | proceed with the work only after pay- {ing duties. These charges are the | same as under Spanish rule, and were | so high that they formed one of the | Cubans’ main “reasons for rebelling. }The American captains found them- | selves called upon to pay an average of 100 per cent ad valorem on ordinary necessities, and appealed to General Shafter. This appeal was without re- sult. Drafts were refused in pay- ment, gold being demanded, though none is to be had, and business affairs are in a chaotic condition.