The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
BACKBONE OF FIGHT BROKEN.
BELIEVED MANY INSURGENTS ARE
READY TO GIVE UP.

@umOred That Pillar May Give His
support to the Americans-Span-
iards Declare the FiIipinOs VIII
Continue the Same Taetics-COun-
try Full of FriendIess Women
and ChiIdren-TrOOps Resting at
MaIOIOs.
Manila, April 2.-The American troops
under Gen. Macarthur are still resting at
3Ialolos, where everything has been quiet
to-day.
Hostilities elsewhere, so far as officially
reported, have been limited during the last
twenty-four hours to an occasional ex-
change of shots between the insurgents
and the troops forming the lines of Gen.
Lawton and Gen. Hall, extending from
the water works to LaLonia.
But this shooting has been just active
enough to make the lives of the soldiers
a burden and to compel the officers to
sieep in the trenches, clothed and in read
mess to repel possible attacks
Most of the Americans are becoming
convinced that the backbone of the insur-
gent opposition is broken. There are num-
erous rumors pointing to an early collapse
of the instruction One of these is that
Gen. Pic del Pillar, the best fighter among
the Filipino officers, will desert Aguinaldo
and give his support to the Americans.
Say the Fight VIII Continue.
The Spaniards, reasoning from their ex-
perience of the natives, refuse to believe
that the rebellion is anywhere near put
down. They declare that the Filipinos will
moi take their defeat at Malolos, with the
loss or the city and the removal of their
so-calied government, seriously TO heart
On the contrary, the Spanlards predict
that the insurgents will hover near the
American lines, bothering them as much
as possible, and when attacked in force
dissolve, only to reappear at other points
This sort of tactics, the Spaniards say,
Will be followed until the wet season com
pels the Americans to be housed in bar
racks, and then the Filipinos will return
and reoccupy such towns as the United
States troops do not garrison. With the
next dry season repetition of the present
operations will begin.
Time alone will show how much there Is
IN TINS theory; but, as against it. 1t must
he borne in mind that the Spaniards in an
their domination of the Philippines. never
gave the inhabitants a demonstration of
power comparable in effectiveness to that
given them by the United States.
Some Want to Give 1t Tn,
A priest and two members of the So
called Filipino Congress, who HID them
selves in the woods during the fighting
Which preceded the capture of Malolos re-
turned there this morning and declared
that 1000 of the Filipino soldiers were anx-
ious TO give up fighting and would do so
pul for their officers, VINO keep them I'M
der arms
Inc whole country between Malolos and
Caioocan is now fun of friendless women
ohldren and old people, who are returning
10 lheir homes, currying white flags. The
Americans are trying TO gain the conf
dehce of the inhabitants by proving 10
them that If they will return and attend
70 Their ordinary work peacefully, no harm
WIFI befan them.
Wo hundred and fifty civilians came
pack to their homes in Malolos last even
ing. Two thousand women and children.
win sprinkling of unarmed men. sup
posed TO be warriors, came TO the outskirts
Ol MaloIos on the seaside of the CITY and
ai'erWard sneaked away, carrying all the
Goods they could
The First Flag in AaIOIos
There has been no little good-natnred
rivalry as to which regiment, the First
Montana or the Twentieth Kansas. is en-
I'ied to the honor of having raised its
Hags first in Maiolos. Col Funston and
twenty men of Company E, Kansas volun-
'eers, claim the distinction on the ground
as already cabled, of having entered the
town at double-quick and raised the com
pahy's flag, but the first flag to be recog-
Hized officially was that of Company G. of
the Montana infantry.