The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-03
Pillar READY TO SURRENDER
WILL GIVE HIS SUPPORT TO AuER-
ICANs, 1T II RUMORED.
"Friendlics" Returning to Their
Homes-Dcfaii> of the Attempt to
Burn Manila on Feb. q.

MANILA, April 2 $50 p. m.-The Ameri-
can troops under General Macarthur are still
resting at MalOIOs, 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 oc-
casional exchange of shots between the in
surgents and the troops forming the lines
OF General LawtOn and General Hall, ex-
tending from the water works 10 La Lonia.
But this shooting has been just active
enough to make the lives of the soldiers
burden and to compel the officers to sleep
I'm trenches. clothed and in readiness to re-
pei possible attack.
Most of the Americans are becoming con-
vinced that the backbone of the insurgent
opposition is broken. There are numerous
rumors pointing TO early collapse of the
insurrection. One of these is that General
Pho Del Pillar, the best fighter among the
Filipino officers. will desert Aguinaldo and
give his support to the Americans.
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 F1lipinos will
not take their defeat at Malolos, with the
loss of the city and the removal of their
so-called government, seriously to heart. On
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 thing,
the Spaniards say, will be followed until the
wet season compels the Americans TO be
housed in barracks and then the Filipinos
will return and reoccupy such towns the
United States troops do not garrison. With
the next dry season repetition of the pres
ent operations will Degin. Time alone will
show how much there is in this theory, but
as against it it must be borne in mind that
the Spaniards in all their domination of the
Philippines never gave the inhabitants a
demonstration of power comparable in ef-
fectiveness to that given them by the United
States.
A priest and two members OF the so-called
Filipino congress, who hid themselves i'm
the woods during the fighting which pre-
ceeded the capture of Malolos. returned
there this morning and declared that two
thousand of the F1lipinos soldiers were anx-
ious to give up fighting and would do so
but for their officers, who kept them under
arms.
The whole country between Malolos and
Caioocan is now full of "friendlies," women
children and old people, who are returning
Americans are trying TO gain the confidence
of the inhabitants by proving TO them that
II they will return and attend TO their ordi-
nary work peacefully no harm will befall
them. Two hundred and fifty cvilia- came
back TO their homes in MaIolos last even
ing Two thousand women and children. with
a sprinkling of unarmed men. supposed TO be
warriors. came To the outskirts of Maloos
on the sea side OF the city and afterwards
sneaked away, carrying all the goods they
could.
There has been no little good-natured riv-
airy as 10 which regiment-the First Mon
tana or the Twentieth Kansas-is entitled
to the honor OF having raised its flag first
in Malolos. Colonel Funston and twenty men
of Company +. Kansas Volunteers, claim
the distinction on the ground as already.
cabed. of having entered the town at
double-quick and raised the company's flag
but the first flag TO be recognized officially
was that of Company G.. of the Montana
Infantry.