The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-03
TROOPS REST At MALOlOS
BACKBONE OF THE INsUR6ENT OP.
POSITION BROKEN.
Insurgent Soldiers Would Omit. II
Their 0Mcers Weuid Let Them
Natives Are Coming Back 10 NAL
clos and Are Cordially Welcomed

MANILA. April Is % 2. nl--The Amer
lean troops. under Gen. Macarthur. are
still resting az Aaloios. where everything
has been quiet today. hos5liiues else
where 50 far as officially reported Save
been limited during the last twenty four
hours 10 Al occasional exchange OF shots
between me insurgents and troops form
ing the Hires of Gen. Isauton and Gen.
Hall. extending trom the water works 10
la Lonia But this shooting nas been Ja4sI
active enough 70 Rake the lives u the
settlers a burden and 10 compel the Off
GERS 10 sleep Ia trenches. cio&hed ana IN
readiness &c repel possible attacks.
Most u the Americans are becoming
convinced that the backbone OF tie insar-
gent opposition is broken. There are nu-
rneroas rurHors p0ianng 20 an early col
lapse Of ;he insarrectign. One OF these is
that Gen. Pho Del Pier. the b--st ngater
among iae Filipino officers. VIII desert
Aguinalao and give his support 70 ihe
Americans
The spaniards. reasoning from their ex-
perience WITH the natives refuse - DE-
ileYe that the rebellion Is anywhere near
put down. They declare that the Flipinos
Will not lake their defeat a, Aaioios. with
the loss OF the city and the removal Of
their so~catled government, seriously 10
heart. On the contrary, the Spanards pre-
diet that the insurgents viii hover near
the American lines, botaefing them as
much as possible. and when attacked in
force dissolve. only 10 rsappear at. other
points. This sort, OF tactlys, the Spaniar9s
say. will re followed until the wet sea-
son compeis the Americans to Toe housed
in barFica1es. and then the EiipDos viii
return and reQccupy 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 muca there is In this the
Dry: but as against IT, ii must be borne
In mind that the Spaniards. in all their
domination Of the Philippines, never gave
the inhabitants a demonstration Of power
comparable III effectiveness TO that given
them by the United States.
A priest aad two members of the So
called Filipino congress. who hid them
selves in the woods during the lighting
which preceded the capture OF Maloos, re
turned there this morning and declared that
1000 Filipino soldiers were anxious to give
up fighting and would do SO but for their
officers. who keep them under arms
The whole country between MaloIos and
caioocan is row full Of friendlies, women,
children and old people. who are return
ing 20 their homes, carrying white flags.
The Americans are trying To gain the con-
fdence OF the inhabitants by proving 10
them that II they viii return and attend
to their ordinary work peacefully no harm
win hefall them Two hundred and fifty
civilians came back TO their homes In Nal
olos last evening Two thousand women
and children, with a sprinkling Of uHarn
ed men. supposed 10 ba warriors. came 10
The outskirts OF Malolos. outside Of the
city, and after@ard sDoaked away, carry
ing all the goods they could.
There has been no little good natured
rivalry az 70 which ree!ment-the First
Montana or thu Twentieth kansas-is en-
titled 10 the honor OF having raised its
flag first In Maloos. Col. Funston and
twenty men OF Company f, Kansas voiun-
tetrs, claim the distinction on the ground
As already cahlod. OF having entered the
,own at double quick and raised the com
pany's Has. bur the tlgst flag to he yecog
nized officially was that Of Company G.. Of
the Montana infantry.