| Show AAIN T IIIUKI11I 1IIUMUTIUW can Ira lTauiole1 llut Saval Aeeoil orifc 11111 40 nrlid Waihlncton April II Captain O r Wilde U B N if the U B H lloion ho protested against the promotion of Colonel Miller to bo n brigadier lien aral As a rvnard for the cupturo ot Ito IK U apiwan llwt tilts rapture Wait effected entirely by na > a l force under the command of aplaln Wilde and that It wan not until after tile Capture had limit effecled that the place wo turned over to Colonel Miller who up In that time had nothing ilj 1 with Its capture Thl lit action U endorsed by Admiral Dewey Wilde prote come too late ta bo effeetho Colonel Miller yam ground il 1 brigadier general In recognition of his enlct at Italia and wa retired In that grado March Tile by operation of low on account of age He wu In command of ties expedition Pont from Manila for tho cuplure of Hollo and tile cruller Hoiton and Ieirvl wait sent with him m render aiUlanco Ulllle III vessels of the expedition r ton 111pelInn wen lying off the port tho rebel It gun at once ta trengllwn their do feiiar arul I red eeral Photo at Iho Patrol which vessel l wa anchored nniret he shore The commander of that Paine warship asked and 1 received prrmlMUm ot Captain Wild of the lloaton to recipient At this lime according to naval ad > lcc moral Miller army lituiiport were far out In tile road Stood Wllh out roinmunlcatliuc with nmernl Mil ler tin warablp I opened I fire on the aliore Imitation anti soon Silenced I them Lieutenant Nlblack ip the Ilo > t > n i I lande with a luilialioii ot marine and nallor and toolc poe loii I of tile town They captured the Insurgent flags on tho goternora house mild on tho bailer IM I and turned the city over to General Miller on his arrhil an hour or to later They kept the ruptured Illegal however In I Pitof Oenerul Miller1 demand for them Title N tile natal story of the bnlllo of 110110 The olll clal report of that engagement first ri clved at Wajhlpaton wa made by nn011lI Miller to tile war department Anil llIlIely lbnuUllr1 the surrender of he to Anor1can farcv un rnt lli tier bid l common S lilluted voinic Into I parilculArs t Action 11 his I report still III In View 01el fact that Ileneral Miller huil but p few mora wevk to servo on the mtlve lIt tied 1reildent appointed him toa vatintly then exist flag 1ln the I Hit of r brigadier 1 eencrula Ho la I now on his way home from Manila and la I expected to reach San FrancU oo tn a J6W 4YL II 1 |
