| Show I PREPARING FOR ATTACK iI j I i EEcnitors Arriveand Ships Are II j I I I I Stripped For Action j I i New York Aug DA copyrighted i dispatch to the World dated Manila i i Aug 4 via Hongkong Aug 9 says il The Unid States monitor Monterey j arrivecl 1 today j i I Manila fall 2 scon as the monitor j mon-itor Monadnc > comes here I Is ex i pected by next Thursday Admiral I I I Deweys ships are stripping for action i Owing to the high wind and heavy j I seas the troops of the third expedition have not yet landed Two lighters were I r capsized in the attempt and three na j i I lives wee droned Immediately af j I ter the arrival of the expedition General I Gen-eral Merritt organized all his forces for an attack on Manila The troops were formed Into one division j I di-vision under command of Ge val Anderson j An-derson The division is composed of two brigades the first under General i MacArthur is made up of the 1 Twenty i third and Fourteenth regular infantry I I and the Wyoming North Dakota Icli I ho Minnesota volunteers and the Astor I i battery i The second brigade under General I I Green Eighteenth regular infantry Third artillery engineers signal corps I i and California Colorado Nebraska Pennsylvania volunteer and Utah bit teries The two brigades number O Omen O-men Oregon troops garrison Cavite Admiral Deweys fleet commands the I trenches and camps of the Spaniards I The situation in Manila is critical The lights of the city are extinguished All meats are exhausted The defenses are a cordon of trenches and a battery of nine sixInch guns gns The big guns are directly in front I Manila Bay Aug 4 via Hongkong Aug 9The long expected monitor Monterey with the collier Bratus I cOIJiCr n1us arrived ar-rived this morning during a gale Much relief is felt by Admiral Dewey and i I General Merritt and there is much en I I thusiasm throughout the fleet and among the troops The capture of Ma j I nila is now only a question of a few I days necessary to land the troops of the third expedition from the United I States transports Indiana Morgan City Ohio Valencia andOity of Para I which arrived in Manila bay on Sunday I Sun-day atternoon July 31 The disembarkation I disembark-ation has been delayed by rough i weather and a heavy surf Four mem I hers of the third expedition died on the way among them Lieutenant R D I teIant R I Kerr of the engineer corps r |
