The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-03
DOCS OF WAR REST
Occasional Shotsfrom
Insurgents Disturb
Their Dreams.
FIGHTING may BE OVER.
Belief That the Backbone
Of the Opposition Has
Been Broken.

Manila, April 2, $50 p. m.-The
American troops under Gen. MacAr-
thur are still resting at Malolos, where
everything has been quiet today. Hos
tiIities eisewhere-so far as officially
reported been limited during the
last twenty-four hours to an occas-
ional exchange of shots between the
insurgents and the troops forming the
lines of Gen. Lawton and Gen. Hall,
extending from the water works to La
lonia
But this shooting has been just a5t-
i've enough to make the lives of the
soldiers a burden, and TO compel the
officers to sleep in trenches, clothed and
in readiness to repel possible attacks.
Most of the Americans are becoming
convinced that the backbone Of the in
surgent opposition is broken.
There are numerous rumors pointing
to an early collapse of the insurrec-
ton. One Of these is that Gen. Pho del
Pillar, the best fighter among the Ful-
Pine officers, will desert Aguinaldo and
give his support to the Americans. me
Spaniards, reasoning from their eXpe-
rience of the natives, refuse to believe
that the rebellion is anywhere near
put down.
They declare that the Filipinos will
not take their defeat at MalolOs, with
the loss Of the city and the removal
of their so-called government, serious
ly to heart. On the contrary, the
Spaniards predict that the insurgents
will hover near the American lines,
botheTing them as much as possible,
and, when attacked in force, dissolve,
| only to reappear at other points.
This sort of tactics-uhe Spaniards
say-will be followed until the wet
| season Compels the Americans TO DE
housed in barracks, and then the Fill
| ipinos will return and reoccupy such
towns as the United States troops 10
not garrison. With the next dry sea-
son, a repetition of the present opera
tions will begin
Time alone viii show how much there
is in this theory; but, as against II,
it must be borne in miId 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 So
called Filipino congress- who hid them
| selves in the woods during the fight
| ing which preceded the capture Of Ma
| lolos, returned there this morning and
| declared that 1000 Of the Filipino SOL
diers were anxious to give up fighting
| and would do so but for their officers,
who keep them under arms.
The whole country between Malolos
and C1lodean is now full Of friendlies,
mostly women, children and old people,
who are returning to their homes, car
rying white flags. The Americans are
| trying to gain the confidence Of the
inhabitants by proving to them that
! if they will return and attend to their
ordinary work peacefully, no harm Will
befan them.
Two hundred and fifty. civilians came
| back to their homes il, Malolos last
| evening. Two thousand women and
children, with a sprinkling Of unarmed
men. supposed to be warriors, came to
| the outskirts Of Malolos on the seaside
of the city and afterwards sneaGed
away, carrying all the goods they
could
There has been no little good natured
rivalry as to which regiment, the First
Montana or the Twentieth Kansas, is
entitled to the honor of having raised
it's flag first in Malolos. Col. FunstOne
and twenty men of Co. z, Kansas vol
unteers, claim the distinction, on the
ground, as already cabled, of having
forced the town at double quick, and
raised the company's flag, but the first
flag to be recognized officially was that
of Co. G, Of the Montana infantry.