Friday, June 06, 2008

Otis to Capture the Rebel Chief Aguinaldo

THE BULLETIN, San Francisco, California, February 8, 1899.

Government Sends Orders That the Insurgent Leader Must Taken at All Hazards.

He Has Already in His Dispair Pleaded for a Truce, Which General Otis Sternley Refused to Grant Him.

[SPECIAL TO THE BULLETIN.]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. - General Otis has been instructed by the War Department to capture Aguinaldo, this insurgent Filipino chief. Aguinaldo is the only leader the Filipinos, and if he can be caught the war will collapse. The department expects Otis to report immediately upon the possibility of capturing the rebel leader.

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