. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. read to allhands on board the squadron. He then readsthe document. There is perfect silence andonly the strong voice of the reader is proclamation is a wonderful thing. It isan inflammatory cry to the people of thePhilippines to unite against the sacrilegiousvandals who are coming over to loot theirchurches and insult their women. It is anappeal to the ignorant passions of an unlet-tered people. At the conclusion of the read-ing of the proclamation, which contained anumber of uncomplime
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. read to allhands on board the squadron. He then readsthe document. There is perfect silence andonly the strong voice of the reader is proclamation is a wonderful thing. It isan inflammatory cry to the people of thePhilippines to unite against the sacrilegiousvandals who are coming over to loot theirchurches and insult their women. It is anappeal to the ignorant passions of an unlet-tered people. At the conclusion of the read-ing of the proclamation, which contained anumber of uncomplimentary things aboutthe American seamen and nation in general,there is a second of silence and then thecrew breaks out in three ringing cheers forthe American flag. To-night the squadron is moving along tothe southeast at an eight-knot speed. Thevessels are marked only by their lights, andit is so dark that even the outlines of thehulls are lost entirely. The sight of this longstring of lights scattered for a mile on theocean, steaming on like a procession, is one THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES. *>& *£. 6^/h REAR-ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY.[Sketched on board the Olympia.] that cannot be forgotten. The seamen on theMcCulloch are lounging on the deck for-ward and there is a great deal of flagship is signaling orders regulatingspeed and other matters to the rest of thesquadron. The red and white lights of thesignals wink and glow like fireflies as theysend their messages out through the night,and once in awhile a red rocket soars aloftand floats off to the stern until it snuffs outlike the bursting of a bubble. April 28—At about 5:15 a. m. a ship wassighted on the starboard bow of the McCul-loch bound toward the Philippines. It provedto be the ship of a friendly power, and soondisappeared. The squadron still holds thesame formation as yesterday. A fairly roughsea is on, and during the early morning thesky looked black and threatening. Toward 9 oclock the sky begins to c
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