. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. in at-tempting to drag in the body, was wounded,and had to get back to the protection ofthe trench without the body. The insur-gents opened fire at once on the Spanishtrench, and claimed to have killed fiveSpaniards. The work of moving the two gunswas completed last night, and they are nowsafely placed in their positions near thelast trenches. What seemed most apparent to me whenat the trenches was that the Spaniardscould easily storm the insurgents out oftheir positions, although at a cost of a
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. in at-tempting to drag in the body, was wounded,and had to get back to the protection ofthe trench without the body. The insur-gents opened fire at once on the Spanishtrench, and claimed to have killed fiveSpaniards. The work of moving the two gunswas completed last night, and they are nowsafely placed in their positions near thelast trenches. What seemed most apparent to me whenat the trenches was that the Spaniardscould easily storm the insurgents out oftheir positions, although at a cost of a goodmany lives. As it is, however, the Spaniardsare acting on the defensive. They have noobject except to prevent a further advanceof the insurgents toward Manila. Malateis the last position standing between Manilaand the rebels. When that falls the rebelscan mount their own guns in the fort andshell the city. The Spaniards are in badcondition and have no heart in the fight,but their pride stands in the way of theirsurrendering the last outpost to Aguinaldos THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 280. A ROOM IN THE COMMAXDAXTES HOUSE, CAVTTE, WHERE OXE OF DEWEYS SHELLS STRUCK. men unless there ceases to be any hope ofholding it. In the insurgent headquarters at Pinedathere was a Spanish soldier who had de-serted from Malate to join the rebels. Hehad just come in the night before. Accord-ing to his story, which was unreserved tothe extent of being garrulous, there werea great number of the Spanish privates whohad been so brutally treated by the of-ficers that they were constantly looking fora chance to escape. He himself had beenstruck by an officer and reduced from therank of corporal to that of private. Hegave his name as Manuel Rodiroso Rages,and said he belonged to the 13th infantry. Hewore the Spanish uniform, but his chevronshad been torn away. He did not want tojoin the insurgents, because he didnt wishto fight against his fellow-soldiers, but heexpressed an eagerness to kill as
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