. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. as senteast to the fashionable official residence dis-trict of Malacanay, the 1st Colorado wassent into Tondo and the 1st Nebraska wasestablished on the north shore of the Pasigriver. MacArthurs brigade patrolled Ermitaand Malate. In the walled city the Spaniards had sur-rendered their arms at the governors pal-ace. By nightfall over 7,000 rifles had beensurrendered, and by the following eveningnearly 1,000 more were turned in. The bigAmerican flag was hoisted by Lieut. Brumby,and as the Oregonia
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. as senteast to the fashionable official residence dis-trict of Malacanay, the 1st Colorado wassent into Tondo and the 1st Nebraska wasestablished on the north shore of the Pasigriver. MacArthurs brigade patrolled Ermitaand Malate. In the walled city the Spaniards had sur-rendered their arms at the governors pal-ace. By nightfall over 7,000 rifles had beensurrendered, and by the following eveningnearly 1,000 more were turned in. The bigAmerican flag was hoisted by Lieut. Brumby,and as the Oregonians entered from theKwonghoi the afternoon of the fight theirband struck up The Star-Spangled women wept as the Spanish ensign wentdown, and the soldiers cheered as the Ameri-can flag went up. The night of the battle was quiet. Exceptfor a few cases reported of the insurgentslooting the houses of Spaniards, there was nodisorder. The American soldiers at once be-gan to fraternize with the Spanish Escolta is thronged to-day with Spanish, 210 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES. m7£ Miff T* HIDDEN CHAMBER IN A WALD, FORT ST. PHILIP, CAVITE. American and insurgent soldiers, the latterwithout their arms. The Spanish also aredisarmed, except the officers; hut the Ameri-cans have their rifles ready for any emer-gency. Former Augusti, with his wifeand children, left the city on the Germansteamer Kaiserin Augusta directly after thesurrender of the city, with the permission ofthe American authorities. Gen. Merritt es-tablished himself in the governors official palace in the walled city and made his homein the summer palace at Malacanay. All during the night of the 13th the Span-iards were surrendering their arms. Tenthousand Mauser rifles were found stored inMalate and 20,000 in Manila, hardly any ofwhich had ever been used. Several new mod-ern field pieces were also found which hadnever been made use of. Three magazinesfull of. ammunition were captured, and
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