Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-03
Americans Think that Instruction
is Practically Over.
COLLAPSE OF REBELLION.
One OF agninaido's Vain supporter.
Proposes Go Leave the Insurgents
and Join Uncle >nm.

Manila. April 2.-'rhc American troops
under Gen. Macarthur are still resting
at Maloloa. where every thing has been
quiet today. Hostilitica oiscwherc-so
far ma officially rcportcd-hnvc been
limited during the last twoniy-four
hours 20 an occasional exchange OF
shots between the Insurgents aud troops
forming the lines OF Gen. I.awton and
Gen. Hall. extending from the water
works 10 La Lonla. nut this shooting
has been Just active enough 60 make
the lives % the soldiers a burden and
TO compel the officers to sleep In trench
- clothed aud In readiness to rcpci pos
slbio attacks.
Must Of the Americans arr becoming
convinced that the backbone OF tho In
HurEcnt opposition ~ broken. There arc
NUMEROUS tumnrH pointing TO an early
collapse OF the instruction. ono ~
thonc In that Gen. Pho dol Pila. the best
nEhtor among the Filipino officers. will
desert Aguinaldo and give his support
To the Americana.
The Spnninrda. reasoning from their
experience OF the natives, refuse to be-
lissfe that the rebellion ~ anywhere
nenr put down. They declare that the
Fllipinos win not take their fsfcnt -
Mhlolos. with the loss OF the city and
the removal W their ao-callcd govern
mcnt seriously to heart. ON the con-
trary, the Spaninrda predict that the
insurgents VIII hover near the Amrri-
can lines, bothcring them ~ much nA
possible. ana when attacked In force.
points.
This sort ~ tactics. ,hc spaninrds
nay. VIII be followed until the wet sea.
son cpmpels the Americans 10 BE-
housed IN barricadcf. ana then the Fill
pinon VIII return ana fcoccupy such
towns as the United stntnH troops do
not garrison. with the next dry season
q rcpcuil0n OF the present Operations
VIII begin. Time alone viii show how
much there u Ia this theory, but. as
nFalnat 70. II must b. borne In mind
that the spaninrds. IN all their dominh-
ton OF the Philippines. never gave tho
Inhabitants q demonstration of power
comparable In cncctlvcncss To that
given them by the United gtntea.
A priest and two members % the so
called Filipino congress, who hid thrm-
relvca ia the woods during the lighting
which preceded the capture OF Mnioios.
returned there this morning ana do
clnrcd that 1900 ~ the Filipino soldiers
were anxious To give NJ lighting and
would do ~ but for their officers. who
kcrp Thorn under nrmr.
The whole country between MnioloT
ana 1aioucan N now fun ~ fricndlcas
women, children ana old people, who
arc returning To their homes carrying
white liars. The Americans nro trying
10 gain the confidence of the inhnhlt-
anita by proving 10 them that N ihgy
will return and attend 10 their ordinary
work peacefully. M harm viii beflll
thcm. Two hundred and ufty civilians
came back 10 their homes In Maloloa
last evening Two thousand women and
children. with srrlnkling ~ unnfncd
men supposed 10 b. warriors. came "a
tho outskirts ~ Malolos outside Of the
city and afterwards snclscd away. car
ryinT all the goods they could.
There has been no little ood-naiured
rivalry ~ 10 which rcgiment-thc First
Montana or the Twentieth l<nnaaH--la
entitled 20 tho honor % having raised
H. iinE first In Mhiolos. Col. Funston
ana twenty men Of company y. Kansas
volunteers, claim the distinction, on the
ground ~ already cnhled. ~ having cn-
tered the town at dnnhlc-puick ana
raised the company fig. but the nrst
iinF % be recognized officially was that
of company q n the Montana Infantry.