The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-03
TROOPS ARE STILL RESTING.
HosTILrTuEs AROUND MANILA HAVE
NOT BEEN RENEWED.
Only n Few shots observation-disclosures
leans Think the backbone of
the Trouble Is Broken.

Manila, April ., ESQ p. m.--Tho troops
under General Macarthur are still rest
ing at Malolos, where everything has been
quiet today JIostiltles elsewhere, so
far as Officially reported, have been limited
during the last twenty four hours TO an
occasional exchange OF shots between the
insurgents and the troops forming the
lines OF General Lawton and General Hail,
extending from the water works to l4aLuna.
But this shooting has been Just active
enough to make the lives Of the soldiers a
burden and to compel the officers 10
sleep in trenches, clothed and in readiness
to repel possible attacks
Most Of the Americans are becoming con-
WINGED that the backbone OF the insurgent
opposition is broken. There are numerous
signs pointing to the carly collapse OF
The instruction. One OF them is that
General Isiros, one OF tho best insurgent
officers, VIII desert to tho Americans,
Tao Spaniards, reasoning from their
experience OF the natives, refuse TO be-
lieve that the rebellion is anywhere near
put down. They declare that the lcili-
pines will not take their defeat at Maioi0s
of their so-called government seriously TO
heart on the contrary, the Spanards
predict that the Fllipinos VIII hover
near the American lines, hotherng them
as much as possible, and when attacked Ia
force dissolve, only To reappear at other
points, This sort of tactics. Spanards
say. will be followed until the wet season
compels the Americans 10 be housed in
barracks and then the Filipinos will re-
turn and reoccupy such towns as tho
United States troops do not garrison
With tho next dry season a repetition OF
the present operations will begin,
Time alone Will show how much there
Is In this theory, but as against 1t. 1t
must be borne In mind that the SpRnlards
In all their domination Of tho FlliplnoS
never gave the Inhabitants a demonstra-
tion of power comparable In effectiveness
to that given them by tho United States,
priest and two members OF the So
called Filipino congress who hid them
selves in the woods during the fighting
which preceded the capture OF Malolos re-
turned there this morning and declared
that 1000 OF the Filipinp soldiers were
anxious to give up fighting and would do
so but for their officers, who kept them
under arms.
The whole country between Malolos
and Caloocan 10 now full of women,
children and old people. who are return
white flags The Americans arc trying TO
gain the confidence OF the inhabitants By
proving to them that II they viii return
and attend 10 their ordinary work peace
fully no harm viii befail them. Two
hundred and fifty civilians came back TO
their homes IN Milolos last evening.
Two thousand women and children with
a sprinkling OF unarmed men, supposed TO
be warriors. came to the outakirts OF
Maloloe, on the sea side. and sneaked
away carrying off all the goods they
could
There has been no little good natured
rivalry as to whether the First Montana or
the Kansas regiment Is entitled TO the
homer of raising the flag first in Malolos.
Colonel Funston and twenty men OF COM
pany u, Kansas volunteers. claim the dis
tlnction, on the ground. as already cabled,
Of having entered the city at double-quick
and raised the company's flag, But the
first nag TO be recognized Officially was
that OF company G, OF the Montana in-
fantry.