The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1898, Page 3

[ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 15698. DEWEY AND MERRITT FORCE THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF MANILA dAUGUSTI FLED ON A GERMAN MAN-OF -WAR: The Joint @ttack Was Made on Satur- day dfter the Peace Protocol Was Signed. Many Complications Will Be Avoided by the Taking of the Capital City of the Philippines by the American Forces. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. Not any great importance was| attaclied to the action of the Ger- | man commander in permitting the Spanish commander to es- cape on his ship. It is supposed | ‘ that Captain General Augusti | made arrangements with the | German admiral to board his ship | whenever there was danger of the | capture of the city by the Ameri- | cans. From the way the officials with | |whom I talked to-night discussed | |it, it is evident the administra- | tion does not propose to lay ;m_\'g undue stress upon it. So far as can be learned the capture of Ma- nila does not change the situa- tion in the Philippines. The only difference has been to make the American hold to the island stronger than it would have been | had the Spanish troops remained in the field. The insurgents still have to be dealt with, but the authorities are |confident of the ability of Rear | Admiral Dewey and Major Gen- leral Merritt to eontrol Aguinal- | | dispatches will be received by the Gov- o4 Speciai Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. o HONGKONG, Aug. 15.—Manila has surrendered to Rear Admiral Dewey. ¢ .The Americans bombarded the city Saturday and were soon in possession. 3 = The officers of the Kaiserin Augusta, which arrived here to-day, are very . reticent regarding Manila, but | have heard from a Spanish passenger who was on the cruiser that Saturday morning Dewey’s fleet advanced toward Manila and demanded its surrender. The demand was refused. The forts were bom- It will, of the American troops to pro tect them from the vengeance o Ihk_ lfl\[”g(.lll‘ The reports of the fall of Ma nila and the flight of Captair | General Augtsti were discussec Augusti, his arrival, had Spanish Consul here. shortly after | be no longer any doubt as to the | status of the Spanish They will be prisoners of war and the American commanders can exercise much more authority | over them than would have been possible if they had turned over (General a conference with troops. T'he officers and crew of the sta refused to say | Gen- circumstances had le sti of course, be the duty ¢ |do, and they do not look for any g | further trouble in the islands in ‘3 the Far East for the present at . |least. It willmow be Major (,('n~\ gg eral Merritt's duty to pmd'um 3’) the Island of Luzon a military | b ’poqqeccmn of the United States | barded and the city taken by assault. ;-"mrl put into force the tariff |m Augusti, who had relinquished the government before to the Military Gov- s |schedule with which he was pro- | ernor, was taken off by the German cruiser late at night. Governor General % vided before his departure from | ,’(\ugush and his family arrived here to-day from Manila on the German cruiser 2’ San Francisco. Kaiserin Augusta. | sought an interview with the Governor General. He re-- e fused to say anything, however, except that he and his entire family were NO SURPRISE TO THE returning to Spain. :} WASHINGTON 0FFICIALS§ Augusti by His Flight Lost the Op- portunity of Going Down in History as a Hero. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—The infor- | mation contained in Consul Wildman's | brief message aroused intense interest, but created no surprise among those | officials who read it. For two or three | days news of the fall of Manila has | been expected. The last dispatches re- | celved from Admiral Dewey and Gen- f n 1 note to General Augusti demanding the | surrender of Manila, threaténing to make a combined sea and land attack upon the city unless the demand was acceded to. While no information other than that received in Consul Wildman's dispatch has been received by the ad- ministration, it is in a measure con- | firmed by a brief dispatch to-night from Madrid. If the report of General Augusti be true, and its accuracy is not questioned here, the probabilities are that official ernment in a day or two at the latest. The flight of General Augusti from Manila created some amusing comment | here to-night. As one official expressed it: “Had he maintained his position, | hard as it was, until the arrival of the | news of peace, he would have been a hero; but he fled, and he will now be branded as a coward.” i NEWS OF PEACE HAS LIKELY REACHED MANILA Secretary Alger Believes the Presi- dent’s Proclamation Suspend- ing Hostilities Has Ar- rived There. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Secretary Alger said to-day that he believed that the President’s proclamation announe- | ing the signing of the protocol had reached Manila. l SAILED BEFORE SURRENDER. According to Augusti Germans Com- | mitted a Hostile Act. HONGKONG, Aug. 16.—It was ru- mored here last night that Manila had surrendered, but no news is obtain- able from the Spanish Consul. Gover- nor General Augusti refused to speak. The German Consul was called upon, 6 106 K0 00 00 10 0 08 0 O N and he informed the correspondent that the outskirtd of Manila were bom- barded by the Americans and that the city surrendered. No damage was | done to the city proper, only the out- skirts being bombarded. The date of | the bombardment was unknown to the German Consul, who refused to say more. General Augusti told a lady that Ad- | miral Dewey demanded the surrender | | of Manila in hour. The Spaniards declined to surrender and they imme- | diately began the bombardment, and | the Spaniards hoisted a white flag. | General Augusti immediately jumped | into a German launch which was in | waiting and went to the Kaiserin Au- | gusta, \\hll‘h ailed before the bom- bardment concluded. The bom- bardment oc red on the 13th. CAPTAIN GENERAL BLANCO TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION | Gives as the Reason That He Does Not Wish to Superintend the Xivacuation of Cuba. MADRID, Aug. 15.—The Government has recelved from Captain General Blanco a dispatch tendering his resig- The reason given by General | eral of the Philipoines, will leave Ma- | | No Longer Talk of Continuing Hos- UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. Offcial Report of Affairs at Manila Made by Consul Wildman. Hongkong: surrendered unconditionally. mans in a launch to the Kais Hongkong. I credit report.” WASHINGTON, Aug. State has issued the following: The following dispatch was received at the State De- partment at I1:15 p. m., August 15, from Consul Wildman, “Augusti says Dewey bombarded Manila Saturday. City CU:UZ‘UCHZ‘fiUUCfiGfifi‘fiO&UU\5\3\560\500!2"360)515‘5 15—The Department of Augusti was taken by -Ger- erin Augusta and brought to f=gegegegegegegegagegegagage] that General Aucusti, Governor Gen- nila for Spain by the first mail steamer, giving his command to the second in rank. SOBER THOUGHT HAS SUBDUED THE CUBANS tilities Despite the President’s Proclamation. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 18%, by James Gor- don Bennett, SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. Hours of sober thought have consider- ably modified the views of Cubans on the subject of cessation of hostilities. There is no longer any talk of not rec- ognizing the fact that peace has been virtually declared between the United States and Spain. The Cubans have come to realize that such a view of affairs might make the situation very disagreeable for them. The censorship which was reimposed here a week ago has been lifted and = | | SLATED TO SERVE ON' COMMISSIONS McKinley Is Completing His Selections. ALLISON TO GET A PLACE HE, DAY AND TRACY ON THE PEACE BODY, Rear Admiral Sampson to Be Ap- pointed to the Cuban Board and I am able to tell of a remark that Gen- eral Shafter made on this subject to | me Saturday. It had been cut by the | censor out of my dispatch referring to | the attitude of the Cubans. do not | belleve,” Gen. Shafter said, “that the | | Cubans will go on fighting in the fare\ of the proclamation.” Here he brought | his fist down on the table by way of | emphas “But if they do,” he con- | tinued, *‘they will be making an attack | upon the United States and will be | treated accordingly.” What Garela may do is hard to tell, but Castillo and other leaders here be- Ieve that he will at once cease opera- tions and faithfully observe the procla- mation. e Last of the Orr Murderers in Jail. PINE BLUFF, Ark.,, Aug. Rachel Morris of Clarendon, accused of being accessory to the murder of John 1 Consul, who at | ton. wred that General and present is at Ca Tt is conjectt i Manila nged the from arratr 1;wr cummun(‘.cr Te- the situation was then Ang Spanish Consul at Hong- s not notified the .\'pnn—‘ Manila of the 1e peace protocol. ight that, the Span- | liscredit theannounce- | ce taken Manila | by the steamer Austr: Representat here of the| Philippine insurgents express | Ives as satiSfied with the ms of peace i SIMPLIFIES ‘ THE SITUATION | The Taking nf the Capital of the Philippines as Viewed at Washington. NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—The Herq. I's Washington corre- sorident sends the following: In the ‘absence of detailed informa- tion concerning the fall of Ma- nila, the authorities c# only speculate as to what brought on the bombardment that led to the sufrender of the cit\' Though only Admiral Dewey | is. mentioned in Consul Wild- | man’s dispatch, it is believed that the land under General | Merritt ated in the bat- tle. i The ican commanders “‘were not expected to bring on a ‘battle in view of the fact that they CA\| ! forces partic Ame knew that peace negotiations s were on foot, but it is realized LIMBONES that the situation was such—two POINT armies confronting each other and their lines being separated by a short distance at some places—that there was danger of a battle at almost any vime. The surrender of Manila will * greatly simplify the task of Gen- éral Merritt and Rear Admiral " Dewey pending the final settle- ment of peace terms. There will BALLO SLAND. et irked that the fastest | the city and bay and not formally |by the President to-night with |era) Merritt indicated that it was their | P2HOM: O e evad to ba i Joibh wa s i el e : 2t M e of the city| Blanco for resigning ls that he does | Orr- I8 bellsved to e fn joll Bere. tvhile ise E surrendered until the final treaty | Secretaries Alger and Wilson | purpose to force a surrender of the ¢ity | not wish to superintend the evacuation | wus fn Jail ey e ne e e o Honekons X s 4 By 2 as soon as possible. aficaba LR ZEEE ex- » Hongko hl Thi of peace. land Adjutant General Corbin. | Tt ia believed that they joined In a|° The Government is also Informed | i thac she was Hed aa's medereae™ 1gusta Drc ught mai ~ BAY HAEBOR AND CITY OF MANILA. By the Joint Attack of Admiral Dewey and General Merritt on Saturday These Came Into Possession of the Upited States by Congquest, 15.—Miss | Commodore Schley to That of Porto Rice Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Aug. 15—The Washe ington correspondent of the Herald telegraphs: President McKinley 1is adopting every means possible to get in touch with public opinion on the question of the Philippines and the final terms of peace with Spain. Pres- ident McKinley realizes that at the present time public sentiment in this country strongly favors holding all the islands of the group, but there are no indications that he is yet ready to adopt this policy. Senator Allison’s appointment as a member of the peace commission is now regarded as assured and his name is added to that of Secretary Day on the list of members. The appointment of Former Secretary of the Navy Tracy as a member of the commission is re- garded as practically assured. There is no longer any doubt that Ambassador Hay is to be Secretary of State upon the retirement of Secretary Day. It cannot be said, however, that Whitelaw Reid has been definitely se- lected to succeed Hay. The President decided to-day to ap- point Major General M. C. Butler, com- manding the first division of the Second Army Corps, to the Cuban commission. The other army members of this comy mission will be Major General Wade, who was one of the men originally se- lected. Major General John R. Brooke still stands at the head of the military committee to be sent to Porto Rico. It is now the intention of the President to associate with him Brigadier Gen- eral Theodore Schwan. It is now understood Rear Admliral Sampson will be the naval member of the Cuban commission and Rear Ad- miral Schley of the Porto Rican com- mission. DON CARLOS PEACEABLE. Pretender Discournging Insurrec= tionary Tendencies in Spain. 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