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Show FAITH IN C(1B Aguinaldo Issues Proclamation Encouraging: En-couraging: Filipinos. ADVICE TO HIS SOLDIERS SHOW AMEIIICANS THEY AEE WORTHY OF INDEPENDENCE. Tells Them the .Question Will Be Settled In Washington When the National Law-makers Meet in DecemberCrisis De-cemberCrisis In th Insurgent Cabinet Is Predicted. 4 Manila, Nov. 2. Aguinaldo has issued a proclamation - announcing that the American congress will meet in December Decem-ber to decide whether "the imperialist policy" and "this bloody work" are. to be continued. He exhorts his soldiers to conduct themselves so that congress will consider them worthy of independence, inde-pendence, and requests the priests to abstain from politics and to redeem the church from the name the misdeeds of the friars has given it. A crisis in the P'ilipino abinet is predicted pre-dicted as a result of the resignations of Paterno and Beuncamino, two Filipino Fili-pino leaders who have lost the confidence confi-dence of the rabid revolutionists. Some Filipinos who attempted to come to Manila with the Spanish commission com-mission received a message from Major General Otis, saying the women and children would be given American protection, pro-tection, but the men who had cast their lot with the insurgents must remain with it. The party included a brother, of General Luna, who was assassinated by the guard before Aguinaldo's headquarters, head-quarters, with his family, and the Filipino Fili-pino secretary of the treasury- The families returned to Tarlac. Driven From Trenches. Lieutenant Slavens of General Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's staff, reconnoitering with eighteen men in front of Angeles, discovered dis-covered a Filipino outpost in a trench. The Filipinos numbered about forty ! men. As the Filipinos had sighted, the Americans, Lieutenant Slavens' only I course was to charge, and his party rushed to the trench, shooting and yelling. They killed three of the in-j in-j surgents and wounded , several, wrho, however, succeeded in escaping. Not one of the Americans was hit. The j lieutenant secured valuable informa- tion about the enemy's position. j '.. The feeling of disquiet aroused at II-ciilo II-ciilo by the arrest of Santiago, the wealthy weal-thy Filipino, who is charged with form-I form-I ing a revolutionary junta, has subsided. I The natives in their quarter of the I town were sullen and restless, and were heard chanting the death song at night, ! with the refrain, "The Americans sleep." A provost marshal's force surrounded sur-rounded the quarters and drove the suspicious looking natives outside the lines. Forces Close to Each Other. The Americans occupy Iloilo and the adjoining towns of Jaro and Molo with 4.0C0 men, consisting of the Eighteenth and Twenty-sixth regiments, two battalions bat-talions of the Nineteenth regiment, a detachment of the Sixth regiment and a battery of the Sixth artillery. The insurgent force is now supposed to be between 4,000 and 5,000 armed men, and many more unarmed. Their lines are about 1)0 yards from Jaro, which is occupied oc-cupied by the Twenty-sixth regiment. The insurgents are supposed to have five smooth-bore cannon. For a long time past they have been building trenches between Jaro and their stronghold, strong-hold, Santa Ba'rbara, eight miles north. MORE AMERICANS KILLED. Troops Have Several Encounters With the Insurgents. Manila, Nov. 3. The insurgents attempted at-tempted to ambush Captain Batson's scouts between Santiago - and Sara-gossa, Sara-gossa, but Captain Batson charged the'in and drove them, out from their position, killing and wounding several of them. One American officer was killed and a private wounded.- General Young's troops are beginning to live on the country, trying buffalo meat and rice, partly in lieu of army j rations. The captures at the Talouera arsenal include thirteen small brass howitzers and 800 one-pound . projectiles. projec-tiles. ' ' Major Bell's regiment yesterday advanced ad-vanced from Guagua on Florida Blan-ca. Blan-ca. which was found to be deserted. Bishop's battaliun is stationed there. Major Bell also made another descent j upon Porac, pursuing the Filipinos , thence into the mountains and capturing captur-ing their horses and baggage. The American loss was one killeld and one wounded. Major Bell reports that he entirely destroyed the insurgent insur-gent cavalry that was operating in that section. ' NOW READY FOR DUTY. Three Spanish Cruisers Raised By-Lieutenant By-Lieutenant Hohscn. San Francisco, Nov. 2. A few days before the steamship China left Hongkong Hong-kong the announcement was made that the three cruisers formerly of the Spanish Span-ish navy at Manila, the Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon and Don Juan de Austria, Aus-tria, were ready to proceed to Manila and' join Admiral . Watson's squadron. The reconstruction of the vessels has been under the supervision of Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Hobson. The vessels will be placed on blockade duty in the Philippines. . The three cruisers were sunk at Cavite Ca-vite by the ships of Dewey, and the estimated es-timated cost of repairing the ships, exclusive ex-clusive of armament, is $C04,000. Sailed For Philippines. Portland, Ore., Nov. 2. United States transports Pennsylvania and Olympia sailed foi the' Philippines tonight with the Thirty-ninth infantry and two companies com-panies of the Forty-fifth infantry on board. Colonel Bullard and his staff sailed on the Pennsylvania. In addition addi-tion to the troops the transports carried car-ried a large quantity of supplies for the army in the Philippines. |