The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1899, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAL()LOS TAKEN, BUT AGUINALDO HAS RUN AWAY —_— 1 e e Cas S S e MACARTHDR [fF——m== (ONTINTES T0 ADVANCE where Can the Insurgents : | | | 0~§»0;&000@0@»0@o«ooc\&@b@bwté}Q5r04\;;.@‘@“i,"_”‘éuoev‘vo’(;’@. Stand Before the Boys in Blue. THEY FIRE THE CITY The Rebels Retreat Along Railway | . Into a Country Adapted for [ Guerrilla Warfare. B8pecial Dispatch to The Call. n ANILA, Marchj \ 31.—I2:35 p. m —General Mac- Arthur’s forces \ \ entered Malolos a few minutes| after 10 o’clock this morning to | find the greater| part Uf the city in ashes, having b 1ed by, the insurgents be- | ¢ ¢ “k L‘h fore evacuation. It was learned that ‘Aguinaldo | e 1d his Cabinet left the city yes pino republic with|¢® “hey hd\ e them. bly to ‘~:m Fernando. \ The insurgent army reneatedn northward, aiter being driven out Malolos, and it is supposed re the same city for an objec- The failure to capture | £ ldo is a source of sincere | regret, as it was believed his ar- t would so dishearten his fol- cause them to lay and the war ADDITIONAL ~ OUR TROOPS as to down their .arms, would end. The Americans bivouacked at Giguinto last night. The place| was not taken without a struggle, | which cost the Americans ten killed and fifty wounded. | This morning baggage trains | were brought up and the bridges| ¥ ':c;\:\ir(’(l preparatory to begin- | WASHINGTON, this date General Otis from Maniia vrA \\d"(]* 10 Ad;u'fint General Corbin the casaulties, Adadiitonal : 2 S Sina] ing the ad ce upon Malolos. | Killed—Second Oregon, g uf sz .| Private Bert T. Clark L= Qur scouts reconnoitered -the| Company L, ¢ country within a mile of Malolos. | ach, spent bal ) - T - 1 e “’lhov hand, ate Charles | They did not find the enemy i R Rober " Frank E. Adams, force, though they discovered |side, seve: Benjamin F. Smith Jr, 4 fios of apmed | 5% = Injured—Company K many scattered bodies of armed | J¥%, T Sergeant E. D. Colgan, Filipinos and about 2000 panic- | leg, siight. Company M, hm\ te Ed- - sl | ward Jacques, hand, slight. stricken natives, w ho were re- el S e Woodruff, heel, mod- G, E. G. Thornton, te Frank C. ny , moderate. Z Killed—First Compa B, Private James J. Boyle. Wounded—First Nebraska, Company B, First Sergeant Robbins, scalp; moder- ate; C; treating to the hills to the east- ward The main body of MacArthur’s | force reached a point about al mile and a half from A\lenlusi without firing a shot at 8 o’clock, | and after a rest of an hour and | coffee the advance against the city was begun. They immedi- ately met with some opposition from a few hundred of the enemy who were hidden in the woods, | se- D, Charles Knapp, thigh, Gustave Myer, s Reed, chest, seve: Grossman, arm, moderate; H. Youngs, thigh, severe; I, James Car- roll, thigh, savere; Joseph A. Wuhoe, lez, moderate; M, Corporal Monroe Spence, foot, slight. Twentieth Kansas—Major Wilder S. Metcalf, foot, severe; F, Private severe; Ratcliff, thigh, severe; but soon drove them out emp, abdomen, moderate; Willlam 3 2 | Ebert, hip, severe; Thaddeus G. Alge! Half a mile farther on they had | man, thizh, John_E. Ballou, e bow, slight r M. Yatt, fore- another engagement with about |arm, s Joseph De- te A. D. Hat- 2000 rebels, who stood for a few minutes, but finally fled precif tately, leaving dead and wound-| ed to the number of at least 200, showing the terrible ‘havoc caused by the.American fire. Anothér halt was made here, _ during which the troops were S0l e Heht; annoyed by the fire of the rebel | Povell. elbox S sharpshooters that they became|C. wounded March 27 and sinc , Corporals W severe; H, Sorur Privates T : D, William F, Edward B. field, | First Montan, . Tolbert, h, arm, aton, Marshall Bewen, Tenth Thomas C Patrick Cummings, head. *, Ralph Downs, thigh, s 1 W moderate ck, sev severe; H, ; I, Archibald 1\let- K, B Townsend, foot, slight. Injured— | Tenth Pennsylvania, A, Private Alex impatient, and the order for the! couiter, groin, slight. march against the city was given. lomwmommmm About- this time a dense vol-| which was known to be in retreat. ume of smoke began to rise from | Several squads, aggregating 1000 Malolos, showing that it had been men, who had been left to guard fired. The advance was made as | the rear and engage the Ameri- rapidly as the heat would permit |cans so as to enable the main ,n the hope of engaging the in-|body to make good its escape, strgents before they could march | were encountered and after fir- out, and a detour was made with |ing a few volleys fled inconti- the idea of heading off the army, |nently. The pursuit was kept up CASUALTIES TO | |Otis' Official Report of the| | Killed and Wounded Dur- ing the Fighting. | Manila | 15 | dreamed of. March 30.—Under J d“m | ed Nebraska, | Privates Bruce Macy, shoulder, | “MANILA, March 31.— Adjutant General, Wash- ington: MacArthur cap- tured Malolos at 10:15 this morning. The en- emy retired after slight resistance, firing the city. “Hall had quite a se- vere engagement beyond Msdraquina. Casualties 20. Enemy driven. OTIS.” i THREE WARSHIPS | STILL SHELLING O e e e o ~-,—0—g»0—@+ fo—a—ow—f@»«\,ma B e e e e e e e e S e e e ol o el 0«@+©4—@+@. ‘kT“"h‘f3’““““’““3‘? AMERICAN AND BRITISH FLEET SHELLING SAMOAN VILLAGE. - ZOTNE Presuma- | goe—o-+9+4-+-0+09-040+34-0 0o PN S S DA, SO A b o S S0 W b S S S o e e e e e e e e e e e e o THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS WERE DETERMINED TO KILL EVERY FILIPINO IN SIGHT 30.— are re- March extracts ASHINGTON, The following from a report just ceived by the Red from F. A. Blake of Califor- nia, in charge of the The report is dated February It % ust one week ago did the fighting “tually commence, and the past week has brought about changes little The insurgents have been hed back on all sides until our cir- sts have advanced in some s much as twelve miles. s fought like tigers and madc su('h a name for themselves for bravery, endurance and strict disci- p]h‘u' as will be handed down to Dos- s for ages to come. With the ll\lrU three wgunded last night at Mzlabay, it brings our total dead and | wounded up to date a trifie under 200. I never saw such execution in my life and hope never to see such sights as met me on all sides as our little corps D d over the field, dr ing wound- egs and arms nearly demolished. total decapitation, horrible wounds in chests and abdomen, showing the de- termination of our soldiers to kill every Cross | | deadly fire of our well trained and eager | Red Cross work at | | native in sight. “The nnpmm did stand their ground | heroically, contesting every inch, but | proved themselves unable to stand the | boys in blue. I counted seventy-nine dead natives in one small field and learn that on the other side of the river | their bodies were stacked up for breast works. The blockhouses filled with n tives were stubbornly held and oniy taken after bayonet charges. There is where we had so many wounded. “You see, they’ seek shelter behind the densely wooded localities, while we must advance in the open, and many times only guess at their locality. I| witnessed many daring deeds of mm-‘ vidual soldiers and officers, absolutely | defying death under a perfect shower | of bullets. This kind of fighting and pushing forward has completely par- | alyzed the natives, as the Spamsh‘ would simply make a sortie and return for a siesta and smoke, wait for an- | other week or month and repeat the | thing. A Spanish officer, surveying the | field, made the remark that the Amer- icans had no etiquette in warfare, not | after an attack. This rush is putting| | of the Fi the fear think when is attacke surrender.” Blake goes on work performed Aguinaldo’s they will ery to by tell of Dwight, Tanner, Nurrows and himself; how the Filipinos fired on wounded being carried from the front, and adds: “We found all we could do dressing wounded Filipinos after first satisfying ourselves that our own had been at- tended to. The moral effect it had on the natives to s so humanely looked after was electr ing. Had the order of things been r versed our wounded would have been treated to a machete stab. “Our surgeon (Dr. Young of Utah), while act ly dressing a wounded man on the field, was entrapped and throat cut from ear to ear, cut off and othe natives and utter disregard for Red Cross attaches, *¥es crdfl\ I was \\llh Colonei Smith t Califo. of the soci Hospital. Both were most grateful.” BAO40+04+ O+ 3+ O+ D+04D404T1 404040404 CH O+ 0+ T+ O+O+0+004+ $O4T+D4+O+T O+ OO+ 0R for probably half a mile, when, not coming up with the enemy, orders were given to retire upon Malolos. The American casualties were | very light. None are reported killed, while the wounded num- | ber not more than twenty-five or thirty. It is not known whether | the pursuit will be continued to- day. The insurgents are so de- | moralized that it is not thought they can be reorganized into a| formidable force, even if given time, while a rest will be of in- 1 | calculable value to the Ameri- cans. Calumpit, six miles north of Malolos, will be the next point to be gained, and orders have been given for the transportation oi rails and bridge material to that point. The country in that vi- cinity is rough and badly cut with water courses, making an ad- vance necessarily slow. This is an ideal country for guerrilla war- fare, and it is possible that the in- surgents may make a stand there. Reports received at General Otis’ headquarters indicate that General Hail's brigade had a brush with the insurgents at Ma- riquina this morning, in which the Americans suffered severely. | ducks in the locality furnished No details are yet obtainable. The casualties in the fight las night at Giguinto are officially reported as follows: First Nebraska—Four killed, thirty wounded. Tenth Pennsylvania — One killed, three wounded. First South Dakota — Ten wounded. The troops are standing the work better than at first. The army is in splendid fighting trim. The infantry is doing most of the work, as the artillery cannot be brought up rapidly The enemy’s loss was appar- ently small, the jungle affording them such protection that the Americans were unable to see them, and in firing were guided only by the sound of the Fili- pino’s shots. The American ar- tillery was handicapped fotr the same reason. Last night's long line of camp- fires made a beautiful sight, with the Twentieth Kansas Regiment on the left of Giguinto station and the Pennsylvania Regiment on the right, beyond the river. The provision train was de- layed by broken bridges, but the stores of grain and flocks of | ample forage. The hospital work is remarka- been bly efficient, as it has throughout the whole campaign. The telegraphers keep abreast of the line and maintain a constant connection with the city. WASHINGTON HEARS THAT MALOLOS HAS FALLEN Belief That Further Resistance on the Part of the Rebels Will Be Hopeless. NEW YORK, March 30.—The Wash- ington correspondent of the Herald sends the following. The news cabled to The Call-Herald of the fall of Malo- | 1os was conveyed to,the White House by Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn and Adjutant General Corbin shortly be- fore 1 o'clock this morning. It was the first news of the capture received in Washington, and was re- ceived with intense satisfaction. President had retired and the night doorkeeper at the White House decided not to disturb him. “You have given us the first news and it is indeed good news,” said As- sistant Secretary Meiklejohn. “It is just what I have been expecting. The fall of Malolos, 1 presume, means its capitulation and practically the end of the war in the PLilippines. With this city in the h §/s of the Americans, Aguinaldo has @ his base of supplles so that further rezistance seems hope- less."” In a dispatch received by the War Department last night General Otls an- nounced the commencement of the at- tack on the rebel stronghold. His dis- patch is dated Friday because of the of God in the natives and I headquarters enough and arduous e their wounded being his his fingers se most cruelly mutilated, showing the treachery of the ia and in the name ty presented him $1000 for allowing the troops to stop for a week | the regiment and $1000 for the Ermita The AMOAN REBELS THE KAISER IS NOT APT T0 MAKE WAR Official Press of Berlin Takes a Most Conciliatory Tone. WASHINGTON UNEASY Probable That All of the Officials Now -at Apia Will Be Recalled. Special Dispatch to The Call. ERLIN, March 30.—A brief B dispatch from Apia, Samoa, dated March 30, says: The. bombardment con- | tinues. In pursuance of military orders the whites have evacuated many houses. The chiefs of the Tanu party, who | were exiled to other islands, have been brought back from Upolu. The firearms and ammunition taken from the Tanu men on January 2 have | been returned. The German Government was taken wholly by surp: with the news from Samea. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, is spending his birthday, which occurs to-morrow, at Baden | Baden, and the Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, Baron Von Bulow, is enjoying a_ forthight’s vacation in Holstein. But a well-informed individual says @ | the Government here is skeptical as to .| Admiral Kautz’ instructions. He adds that the-instructions for a- bombard- ment were based on the British and American claims that Mataafa was con- travening the Samoan act. But, the official voints out, the contravention was not specific, and the Government presumes that if the act was really in- fringed Herr Rose, the German Consul, would also have protested, as his Gov- ernment had instructed him to strictly | conform to the act. “ The assertion that Herr Rose protest- | R AT, AN BB BT D AR B S0 A T Tl 0, 0 T P8 5. T R R B s» +-0—+-0-e- [ENGLAND 13 (RGING THE AMERICANS. Sentiment of Great Britain Voiced by “The Speaker” : other powers. ThlS Week. | There is considerable curiosity in this | city as to the effect the outbreak will | have upon the attitude of the United | States and Great Britain, but the view remains that the final settlement will be in no w changed by the outbreak of hostilities, but must be arranged by the joint action of the three cabinets, The semi-official Post comments calmly upon the new situation and says that Germany will remain neutral. The National Zeitung, commenting ed against the deposition of the pro- visional ‘government is doubted, as it is claimed Herr Rose wis instructed not to identify himself'with Mataafa more closely than the representatives of the Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, March 30.—The Speaker this week, commentine upon the diffi- | culties of the Americans in the Phil- ippines and asserting that the new se- ries-of troubles, which id to be in- evitable, even after the capture of Ma- lolos, probably puts an end to the upon u_w amoan situation. says: Siea renatifc mive | “While it appears that the American and .British representatives thought “It must present str be noted throughout the| zle that the Filipinos have put lh‘-xmel\ es in the wrong. The plea the- Mataafans were contravening the treaty, the meeting held on the Phila- that they were fighting in defense of | G€IPhia had no jurisdiction because the their rights does mot hold good in the | Unanimous approval of the three Con- | suls is’ necessary to make any deci- [ of Manila, which is the center of | ° | sions legal. European intere It could not be left to the mercy of revolutionaries. | hn‘“. ?“““""‘?l Zeltung adds chat fut America, through no fault of her own, | theT Information is >l e to show whether the Americans and has become responsible for the Enqd‘ clont feak : gosernment of the Philippines, and is | bnen fad suficient veason for tel bound to suppr Aguinaldc S . = aldo as we| ., jydes by remarking: “Thus far suppressed Arabi Pasha, for the pro- | tection of European interests in Egypt. “It may be possible hereafter to r'x\e‘ the Filipinos local self-government, even independence, but, for the present, ‘ it is absolutely necessary to secure | peace at Manila for the maintenance of | the commerce of the islands. 1If, by threatening this, the Filipino govern- ment made itself impossible, the fault lies with itself and not with the United | States. For the present the gallant | troops in the newer west are the man- | datories of civilization and Europe and | are carrying ou the war in the interest of peace.” B40404040404040+04040404+8 | difference in time between Manila and | Washington. This is his message: the only result appears to have been | destruction and anarchy.” Replying to the allegations of the | Daily Chronicle of London that the United States Embassador here, An- drew D. White, has been pro-German | in his handling of the Samoan question the Cologne Gazette says semi-offi- | cially: “For some time we have noticed that | the efforts of the English press to cre- ate bad blood between the United States and Germany have taken fresh impulse from the latest developments at Samoa. 'Not to mention otner in-' stances which show the mood of the English press, the London Times a few a ago circulated a false story to the effect that Gérmany was intending to withdraw frcm the Berlin treaty. Now . March 3L.—Adjutant General, | the Daily Chronicle claims to know as a hington: MacArthur made his dispo- | fact that the United States Embassa- erday- for the attack on Ma- | qor, Mr. White, has aroused great dis- The engagement opened at| catisraction in the United States be- ‘clock this morning and is now prog- cosine. . The casualiies yesterday wece | cause of his hendling the Samoan ques- tion principally from the German stand- four killed and twenty-three wounded. Al | (O were brought to Manila last night. Han | Point. moved out from the pumping station at ~1t would be honoring the Daily daylight this morning with ee bat- | Chronicle too much if we were to en- deavor to protect the American Embas- sador against the absolutely unproven accusations of a serious violation of his | duty. It is sufficient to say again that bitterly and with a talent for in- venting false reports the English press is pursuing everybody who is suspected | of being apt to foster the good and | friendly relations hot\w‘en the United talions northeastward. He attacked and! has taken Maraquina and is pursuing the enemy. He was ordered.to return this afternoon. OTIS. The department was informed yester- | day of the dispatch of the Minnesota regiment to the front in order to strengthen General MacArthur's com- mand in the attack upon Malolos, | Stotes and Germany Among the foreign attaches stationed | at Washington the fighting about sta. | HOSE; CHAMBERS, OSBORN nilgdls helng followed wittiicditicaitne U = W/EL ALE BE WITHDRAWN terest. They speak of it in rather seri- ous terms, the prevailing view being | T that the insurgewts can keep up a long | Perhaps a New Set of olficm/s and harassing running fight. One of the forelgn representatives Can Keep the Peace in who has seen long service in the Far | East said that casualties of twenty-one a day may seem small, but when long Contlnued on Second Page. Samoa. NEW YORK; March 30.—The Her- ald’s Washington correspondent sends