The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-04-06
TIE ENEMY IS LY|N(1 Ion.
FiIipinos Show No Desire to Re-
sumo hostiIities.
TROOPS RESTING At MAL0L0S.

still resting at M-'o:os. WI ere every
thing has been quiet. b 8; ,lities else
where-so far a officially reported
have been limited during the last
twenty-fo' hours to an occasional
exchange G. shots between the insur-
gents and the troops forming the lines
Of General Hall, extending from the
waterworks to La Lonia But this
shooting has been just active enough
70 make the lives of the soldiers a
burden and to compel tas officers to
sleep in trenches, clothed and in readi-
ness to repel possible attacks.
Most of the Americans are becoming
convinced that the backbone of the in
urgent opposition Is broken. There
re numerous rumors pointing to an
;4rly collapse Of the insurrection. One
~ these is that General Pho del Pillar,
TIE best fighter ar:ong the Filipino
Ulcers, Gill de. ers Aguinaldo and
give his support to the Americans.
The Spaniards, reasoning from their
experience of the natives. refuse to be-
:ieve that the rebellion is anywhere
lear put down. They declare that
The Filipinos will not take their de-
feat at Malolos, with the loss of the
,.ity and the removal of their so-called
government, cricusly to heart. On the
contrary, the Sp:> 'iards predict that
the insurgents will hover near the
american lines, lothering them as
l.uch as possible and when attacked
ia force, dissolve, only to reappear at
ether points. This sort of tactics, the
Spaniards say, will be followed until
the wet season compels the Americans
10 be housed in barracks, and then the
filipinos will return and re-occupy
such towns as the United States troops
co not garrison. With the next dry
season. u repetition of the present OPP
urations will begin.
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 inhab-
itants a demonstration of power COM
parable in effectiveness to that given
them by the United States.
A priest and two members of the So
called Filipino congress, who hid
themselves In the woods during the
fighting which preceded the capture of
Malolos, have returned there and de-
clared that 1000 of the Filipino SOL
diers were anxious to give up fighting,
I'D would do so but for their officers,
who keep them under arms.
The whole country between Malolos
and Caloocan is now full of friendlies
women and old people-who are re-
turning to their homes carrying white
days. The Americans are trying to
rain the confidence of the inhabitants
by proving to them that if they re-
turn and attend to their ordinary
work, peacefully, no harm will befall
them. Two hundred and fifty civil
ians came back to their homes in Ma
iolos last evening.
Two thousand women and children,
with a sprinkling of unarmed men.
supposed to he warriors, came to the
outskirts of Malolos on the sea side of
the CITY and afterward sneaked away,
carrying all the goods they could.
There has been no little good ma.
tured rivalry as to which regiment
tho First Montana or the Twentieth
Kansas--is entitled to the honor of
having raised its flag first in Malolos.
Colonel Funston and twenty men of
Company E, Kansas volunteers. claim
the distinction, on the ground, of hav-
ing 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 Mon
faua Infantry