Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-04-06
GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S
men ARE RESTING
American Troops Remain at MaIo.e,
Over sunday---No Fighting
to Speak OF.
PREDICTIONS OF THE spANlARos
Claim That the suMugation OF the
Filipinos Is Far From ACCOM-.
complished---Otis' Cas-
ualty Report.

Manila, April $3.50 p. m.-Thc
American troops under General Mac
Arthur arc still resting al Malolos,
where everything has been quiet I'd,
day. Hostilities elsewhere-so fas as
officially reported-hav been limited
during the last twenty-four hours to
an occasional exchange of shots be-
tween the insurgents and the troops
forming the lines of General Lawton
and General Hall, extending from the
waterworlls to Lalonia. But this shoot
ing has been just active enough to
make the lives of the soldiers Il burden
and to compel the offers to sleep in
trenches, clothed and in readiness to
r3pel possible attacks. Most of the
americans are becoming convinced
that The backbone of the insurgcnt OPP
POSITION is broken. There are nlimcr-
BUS rumors pointing to an early col
lapse of the instruction. One is that
General Pido del Pillar, the best fighter
among the Filipino officers was to de-
sert Aguinaldo and give his support to
the Americans.
The Spaniards, reasoning from their
experience of the natives, refuse to be-
near put down. They declare that the
Filipinos will not take their defeat a.,
Malolos, with the loss of the city and
the removal of their so-called govern
mcnt, seriously TO heart. On the con-
frarN, the Spaniards predict that the
insurgents will hover near the Ameri-
can lines. botlcring them as much as
possible, and when attacked in force,
dissolve only to reappear at other
points. This sort of tactics-thc Span
lartls say-will he followed until the
wet season compcls the Americans to
De housed i'll barracks, and then the
Filipnos will return and reoccupy
such towns as the United States troops
do not garrison. With the next dry
season a repetition of the present OFT
erations will begin.
Time alone will show how much
there is in this theory; but as against
1T it must be borne i'm mind that the
Spaniards in all their domination of
the Philippines never gave the inhab-
ltants a demonstration of power com
parable i'm effectiveness to that given
them by the United States. A priest
and two members of the so-called Fill
pino congress, who established them
selves in tho woods during the fight
ing which preceded the capture of Ma
loios, returned this morning and de-
clared that 1000 of the Filipino sol
diers were anxious to give up fight
ing and would do so, but for their Off
GERS, who keep them under arms. The
whole country between Malolos and
Caloocan is now full of friendless
women, children and old people, who
are returning to their homes. CARRYING
white flags. The Americans are try
ing to gain the confidence of the inlab-
itants by proving to them that if they
will return and attend to their ordi-
nary work peacefully no harm will
befall them. Two hundred and fifty
civilians came back to their homes in
Malolos last evening. Two thousand
women and children, with sprinllling
OF lnarmed men, supposed to be wHr-
riors, came to the outskirts of Malolos
on the seaside of the city, and after
ward sneaked away, carrying all the
goods they could.
There has been no little good ma
tured rivalry as to which regiment =
the First Montana or the Twentieth
having raised its flag first i'm Mnlolos.
Colonel Funston and twenty men of
Company +. Kansas volunteers, claim
She distinction, on the ground. as al
ready cabled, of having entered the
town at double time and raised the
company's flag, but the first to be rec
ognized officially was that of Company
O, of the Montana infantry.