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Show WILL AVOID CONFLICT FILIPINOS NOT ATTACKED BY AMERICAN FORCES. Troop will he Landed, But Not at Hollo Ifi.sureiiLN I'eelitre They Will Octroy the Town If It U lioiiibai'ded. Manila, Jan. 10. Colonel 1'otter, the special emissary of General Otis between be-tween Manila and Iloilo, has arrived here with dispatches from the latter point. The .situation when he left there was practically unchanged. The streets were barricaded, ;uid it was reported re-ported that the principal buildings had been "kcrosened," tiie insurgents having hav-ing threatened to destroy the whole business section by fire at the first shot of bombardment. The banks were shipping treasure to the United States by the transport Newport and other vessels. The family of the American vice-consul lias gone on board the Newport. Colonel Potter reports that President Mck'inley's proclamation had to bo typewritten aboard ship, as the printers on shore declined to do the work, and when the text of the proclamation was read to them, ridiculed the notion that conciliation was possible. Tho United States gunboat Petrel arrived at Iloilo on December 6, and Colonel Potter reports that the United States troops will probably land on Guimaras island, about midway between be-tween tho island of Panay and the island of Negros, where a camp will be established. |