y.

Hugh Brown, an Englishman, who arrived at Hongkong from Manila February
11, gives in detail evidence of the conspiracy of the insurgent swarms
in attacking the American army. He was at a circus where there were
no natives when our soldiers were called out. They behaved nobly,
disarming natives, but not killing them. There was mysterious shooting
going on in the city "when an American shell struck a tree 200 yards
away, and four natives dropped to the ground. The trees were found
to be full of hiding natives, using smokeless powder." Aguinaldo was
fifty miles away and telegraphed Admiral Dewey that he was not to
blame, and for God's sake to stop the firing of the fleet.

Captain Frazer of London, late of the Imperial British forces,
arrived at Vancouver direct from Hongkong March 8th, and gave this
account of the declining health of Admiral Dewey:

"The war at Manila will have to end soon or the life of the great
American Admiral will be worth nothing.

"I dined with him at Manila within a month, and am convinced that if
he is not relieved of the terrible strain imposed upon him he cannot
last a month longer. As he sat at the banquet table, surrounded by
his staff, he looked to me like a dying man. His hair is snowy white,
his face ashen, and he ate hardly anything.

"I had the pleasure of a few minutes' conversation with him when we
retired to the smoking-room. Having in mind his enfeebled appearance.,
I asked him if he thought of returning to America soon.

"'I would like to, but my work is by no means finished here. When it
is, and only then, will I return.'

"I am thoroughly convinced that only the Admiral's indomitable will has
kept him up so long. The strain on him is terrible, and the climatic
conditions have reduced him to a shadow.

"One of his officers said to me just before I left Manila:

"'The war will be ended by the Admiral soon or it will end him. No
man can stand such a strain as he does in this climate and live long.'"

If this is to be literally accepted, and we may hope that it
is overstated, there has been a distressingly unfavorable change
within five months in the Admiral. His trouble is said to be with his
liver. There is no question the strain upon him has been more wearing
than the public have realized. Last summer his anxieties afflicted
him with insomnia at night, and he has not for a day since he left
Hongkong in April been free from burdens of harrassing care. His last
words