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The good-natured Duc nevertheless seemed to eat his dinner as if he still continued to take a pleasure in the operation, and did ample justice to a certain plat de cailles farcies which he pronounced to be perfect. Our landlord, le Marquis de L , has sent to offer us the refusal of our beautiful abode.
Unquestionably soldiers and brigands sometimes coöperated. Garrisons were withdrawn from towns which did not promptly and fully comply with the demands of Insurgent commanders, and armed bandits appeared and plundered them. There were some Insurgent leaders, like Cailles, who suppressed brigandage with a heavy hand, but many of them were indifferent, even if not in alliance with the evil doers.
Their attitude is well illustrated by the following extract from a telegram sent by Colonel Cailles to Aguinaldo on January 10, 1899: "Most urgent. An American interpreter has come to tell me to withdraw our forces in Maytubig fifty paces. I shall not draw back a step, and in place of withdrawing, I shall advance a little farther.
"The difficulty of last night at the San Juan picket with the American troops has been adjusted without prejudice. Our preparations ought to continue. Awaiting orders." San Juan was where the firing commenced on February 4, 1899. On December 9 Cailles wired Aguinaldo as follows: "Report to you that there are 3000 Americans in front of our position at Singalong.
I believe that they are playing us until the arrival of their reinforcements, but I shall send an ultimatum and remain always on the alert. E. A. Jan. 10, 1899." On this same day Aguinaldo commissioned Feliciano Cruz and Severino Quitiongco to assassinate General Otis. On January 13 Noriel and Cailles telegraphed Aguinaldo as follows:
General Pantaleon Garcia was the only one who at such a critical moment was at his post in Maypajo, north of Manila, Generals Noriel, Rizal and Ricarte and Colonels San Miguel, Cailles and others being away enjoying their leave. General Otis, according to trustworthy information, telegraphed to Washington stating that the Filipinos had attacked the American Army.
On receipt of this and as soon as you learn its contents, proceed secretly to determine the most suitable places to post detachments and immediately post our troops and have intrenchments made employing day and night in this work. Beg this of our soldiers." The instructions to Noriel or Cailles read as follows:
On the following day Cailles reported that he had occupied blockhouse No. 12, which was within the American lines, and added the following significant statement: "The order of yesterday was, on hearing the first shots from Santa Ana, for my whole force to hurl themselves on the American line of trenches, and to follow the living to Manila. The dead can lie with the dead.
It contains instructions for General Pío del Pilar, General P. Garcia and General Noriel or Colonel Cailles. Their purpose is hardly open to doubt. General Pío del Pilar was directed:
He brings a letter from his general, in which he speaks to me as a friend. War, war, is what we want. The Americans after this speech went off pale." Aguinaldo approved the hostile attitude of Cailles, for there is a reply in his handwriting which reads: "I approve and applaud what you have done with the Americans, and zeal and valour always, also my beloved officers and soldiers there.
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