How can he enter Manila ?" [154] No attention was paid to General Anderson's request that the Insurgent troops should not enter Manila without permission.

They crowded forward with and after the American forces.

Coming out on Bagumbayan drive, they found American and Spanish troops confronting each other but not firing, the former on the drive, the latter on the neighbouring city wall.

A flag of truce was waving from the south bastion, nevertheless the Insurgents fired on the Spanish forces, provoking a return fire which killed and wounded American soldiers.

Of this incident General Greene has said:-- "At this point the California regiment a short time before had met some insurgents who had fired at the Spaniards on the walls, and the latter, in returning the fire, had caused a loss in the California regiment of 1 killed and 2 wounded." [155] Some of these matters must have come to the attention of General Anderson, for he sent Aguinaldo a telegram, received by the latter at 6.35 P.M., as follows:-- "Dated Ermita Headquarters 2nd Division 13 to Gen.Aguinaldo.Commanding Filipino Forces .-- Manila, taken.