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Show UNPAID, UNFED AND WEARY. The Filipinos are Hi oomliiu; Disillusioned and Dlssatlslled. London, Fob. 15. Itcuter's Telegram company, limited, has received tho following fol-lowing dispatch from Manila, dated Feb. 13, 3:45 p. in.: After tho capture of Caloocan, a Spaniard who had been a prisoner there camo to tho Americans holding up his hands, and said that the Filipinos had offered to release tho Spaniards, especially tho artillerymen, If they would undertake to light against tho Americans at Si a day. Most of tho Spaniards rofused, and even those who acccptod the offer did so In the hope of effecting an escape- Tho robots, according to this Informant, Inform-ant, aro discontented, unpaid, unfed and thoroughly 'disillusionized, tho tallsmanle wafers being of no avail against wounds, hunger aud fatigue. On Friday Agulnaldo visited Polo, a few miles northwest of Caloocan, nnd addressed tho Filipino troops thero, claiming that ho hud won a victory, and asserting that 5,000 American had been killed. |