. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. ispatch, is now practically surrounded, andvery little, if any, food is getting throughtheir ranks and reaching the people in Ma-nila. On the 13th the insurgents arrivedat Caloocan, a suburb of the city, and at-tacked it. This division of Aguinaldos forcenumbers 300 men, and on the day previousto the attack on Caloocan they had capturedthe three towns of Tinangeros, Malibon andSan Jose de Navatos. The insurgents force around Manila andthe approaches to it number nearly Gen. Aguinaldo on
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. ispatch, is now practically surrounded, andvery little, if any, food is getting throughtheir ranks and reaching the people in Ma-nila. On the 13th the insurgents arrivedat Caloocan, a suburb of the city, and at-tacked it. This division of Aguinaldos forcenumbers 300 men, and on the day previousto the attack on Caloocan they had capturedthe three towns of Tinangeros, Malibon andSan Jose de Navatos. The insurgents force around Manila andthe approaches to it number nearly Gen. Aguinaldo on June 14 gave alist of towns where his troops are stationed,with the number of men at each mentioned in the first section are sit-uated around the city of Manila, the dis-tances varying from two to six miles: Novaliches, 100 men , Felipe de Neri. and Pateros. 200. Pineda. 300 men and two field pieces. It is thislast detachment that has been assailins Petro Macati, 200. On the southern and southeastern ap- 94 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES. /fCo**?£ artitfmi& EFFECTS OF THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAVITE ARSENAL AS SEEN IN ONE OF THE AMMUNITION ROOMS. proaches to Manila the troops are disposedas follows: Malibay, 200. Paranaque, 100. Las Pinas, 100. Bakor, 500. Imus, 400. Old Cavite. 200. San Francisco tie Malabon, 400. In addition to the insurgents included in this list there are between 2,000 and 3,000operating in the provinces in other sectionsof the island. The prison life of the Spanish soldiers nowconfined in Cavite is not a hard one. Theyare quartered in clean, commodious barracksand have an ample allotment of have been allowed to keep what moneythey had and are permitted to buy anything THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 06 to eat that they care to. Little fruit shopshave sprung up all along before the prisonwindows, and the natives do a flourishingbusiness in selling chickens, tobacco and fruitto the prisoners. T
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