| Show MANILA IS OURS the stars stare and stripes now wave over the or of manila on saturday lat as the 04 dispane dispatches have it the great and only dewey demanded of captain general august the unconditional capitulation of the city to which demand no reply was va returned atthe expiration of the sixty minutes the guns of the american ships were once more tut turned ned aix amsl perhaps for the last time uvon upon the spaniards and their brieden mouths no booner began to belch forth fire and steel than the white emblem of surrender was discernible from the mast maat zead of the headquarters the details are very meagre but as far as they go they lead to the conclusion that the city was immediately occupied and that american rule in the philippines has begun while all this was going on the cap tain general escaped he who at various times announced that he would resist to the death would die in the last ditch and with other grandiloquent terz terms conveyed the idea that he amounted to a huge phial of concentrated wrath that only needed to be uncorked and its contents poured out to scatter ruin and death on every hand at the last minute did not care to face the yankee pigs the men whose great achievements under his very eyes have made them famous throughout the she world were nobodies and their vie vic tories were accidents anyhow they were too much one way or another to suit him and so he fled brave man valiant officer what a delightful contrast he presented to such spaniards as cervera and toral who could afford to be prisoners of war but could not afford to run the me escape of augusti august however undesirable the thought may be brings into mental relief once more the fine hand of the german contingent in phil ilaine waters A german craft so conveniently at hand as to establish beyond cavil an understanding beforehand received the fallen hero and carried him in safety to hongtong Hong kong As the war was still going on so far as related to the contending forces at manila at that time the peace agreement not having been made known to them the act is to be judged the same as though peace had not been concluded this makes the commander of the german vessel guilty of a gross breach of friendliness it if nothing more serious one we take it that his hia government will have to make it right the casualties casual flea it if any are unknown it ft Is not probable there were any of a serious character and it was better that the city be taken in the way it was than any other things seem to be settling pretty fast now and with the dying out of the last reverberation from the cannons mouth will come the greater and grander work of restoration cultivation and general advancement laiter dispatches are such euch as to justify a modification of some ome of the conclusions clu above set out but not in any material way |
