The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-12
American Troops Are Living OH the
Land.
MORE NOTES FROM LIEUT.. GILMORE
There Are Twenty-eight Prisoners in
the Party, and the Natives Say
They Were Pushed Forward
at the Bayonet's Point

Manila, December u.-Dispa tches dated
Conception, December 2, from a corre-
spondent of the Associated Press, with the
detachment pursuing Aguinaldo, have just
reached Manila by a messenger. The mil
diary wires on all lines to the northward
are continually cut by the natives are
crowded with government business when
working.
According to these advceS General
Young was at Condor November 49, hav-
ing three troops of the Third cavalry, Cum
ningham's scouts and Major March, bat
TALON OF the Thirty third infantry.
The horses We're worn out and handi-
capped by lack of shoes. The infantry,
after a march of hundred miles from San
Jaciato, were shoeless and all were living
on the country. 1ne troops had no am
munition except what they carried in their
belts.
General Young then having been with
out communication with General Lawton
for ten days and not knowing tine d.spo-
sition of the other troops or whether sup
port was being sent forward, resolved to
keep moving. Having received information
that the insurgent general, Tino, with
hortn, and that Aguinaldo, with General
fllar, four women and 400 soldiers of his
ta1thful Bulacon battalion, was in the
mountains to the east, General Young de-
cided on November 80 to divide his force
He proceeded, himself, toward Vigan,
hoping to attack General Tino with gis
handful of men and to prevent him Join
ing Aguinaldo. Major Marcn, with his bat
ia ZION and Cunninghams scouts started
over the mountains toward Cervan tes after
Agulnaldo, who was reported to have been
there on November 49, 1,his column
marched for thirteen hours without food.
Inc Associated Press correspondent goes
on to say:
Pitfalls Along the Trail
'hhe Americans found that the insur-
sehes nad impressed the Igorrotes, compelI-
apg them to dig trenches and to construct
pftfalls along the trails which were fearful
travelling at the best. One stream had to he
rorded twelve times in the course of a mile
Ihese inoHensive, stupid crea lures usual
ly pictured as bioodthirsty, cheerfully furn
ed to undo their own work and Actually
went 1orag1ng for the Americans The Ilo-
COS region is the richest the Americans
have entered in the northern camnafpn
Ine Ilocos are prosperous, intelligent and
more than half civilized. They have ex-
ceiient houses and carry on fourishine in
dustrfes. Many of them are evidently rich
oe'erdi towns received the troops with
bands and the ringing of church bells. Cat
tie were killed and houses were opened to
the troops.
How much of this display was sincere.
and how much due to a desire to propitiate
the conquerors 1T would be hard to say.
There were evidences that similar hospi-
talfty had been extended to Aguinaldo. The
people described him as cheerful. fugging
the hope of salvation through American
politics, and everywhere trying to support
by proclaiming with seeming sincerity that
the United States congress would certainly
recognize the independence of the Filipino
republic in December.
Notes from Gilmore
Many of the natives exhibited notes from
Lieutenant Gilmore and other American
prisoners in which the recipients were COM
mended to the Americans on the score of
kindness shown to the writer's.
There are twenty-eight Americans with
Lieutenant Gilmore. Another party of four
teen were taken through uocos a week
ahead of General Young. They were ragged
and dirty and the natives say some of them
were urged forward at the point of the
bayonet.