Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-05
SUNDAY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Interesting Statement of the Situation In
and About Malolos.

Interesting Statement of the Situation In
and About Malolos.
The American troops, under Gener-
al Macarthur, are still resting at Ma
lolos where everything has been quiet
today, says Manila dispatch of Sun
day. Hostilities elsewhere, so far as
officially reported, have been limited
during the last "a hours to an occa-
sional exchange of shots between the
insurgents and troops forming the lines
of General Lawton and General Hall,
extending from the water works to La
Lonia, but this shooting has been just
active 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 at
tacks.
Most of the Americans are becoming
convinced that the back bone of the in
surgent opposition is broken. There
are numerous rumors pointing to an
early collapse of the insurrection.
One of these is that General Pho Del
Pillar, the best fighter among the Fill
pinos' officers, will desert Aguinaldo
and give his supprot to the Americans.
The Spaniards, reasoning from their
experience with the natives, refuse to
believe that the rebellion is anywhere
near put down. They declare that
the Fllipinos will not take their defeat
at Malolos, with the loss of the city
and the removal of their so.called gov
ernment, seriously to heart. On the
contrary, the Spaniards predict that
the insurgents will hover near the
American lines, bothering them as
much as possible, and when attacked
in force, dissolve, only to reappear at
other points.
This sort of tactics, the Spaniards
say, will be followed until the wet sea-
son compels the Americans to be
housed in barracks, and then the Fill
pinos will return and reoccupy such
towns as the United States troops do
not garrison. With the next dry sea-
son q repetition of the present opera
tions will begin. Time 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 in
habitauts a demonstration of power
comparable in effectiveness to that CIV
en- them by the United States.
A 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,
returned there this morning and de-
clared 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 Caloocan is now full of friendless
women, children and old people, who
are returning to their homes, carrying
white flags. The Americans are trying
to gain the confidence of the inhabi-
tants by proving to them that if they
will return 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
lolos last evening. Two thousand
women and children, with a sprinkling
of unarmed men, supposed to be war
riors, came to the outskirts of Malolos
on the sea side of the city and after
ward sneaked away, carrying all the
goods they could. There has been no
little good, natural rivalry as to which
regiment, the First Montana or the
Twentieth Kansas, is entitled to the
honor Of having raised its flags first in
Malalos. Colonel Funston and 20 men
of Company E, Kansas volunteers,
claim the distinction, on the ground,
as already cabled, of having entered
the town at double quick and raised
the company's flag; but the first flag
recognized officially was that of Com
pany G, of the Montana infantry.