The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-29
FlLlPIN0S ARE MORE ACTIVE
REBELLION SEEMINGLY TAKING
a NEW LEASE OFLIFE.
Change Attributable TO Approach of
Wet Season-American Troops Conn
PEELED to Keep in the Trenches Gem
erals Luna's and Mascardo's Forces
Return to Their Old Trenches Round
San Fernando.

Manila May 2S-S p. nl.-The ap-
proach of the wet season finds the in
surrection seemingly taking new lease
of life. All along the American lines
the rebels are showing more aggressive
activity in their guerilla style than at
any time before since the fall of Malo-
los. They keep the United States troops
In the trenches, sleeping in their cloth
ing, and constantly on the alert against
dashes on our outposts, and they make
life warm for the American garrisons in
and General Mascardo, which retreated
toward Tarlac when they feared they
would be caught between General Mac
Arthur and General Lawton, have re-
turned in force to their old trenches
around San Fernando, where there are
daily collisions.
Opposite our lines on the south, pro-
tecting Manila, all the way around to
San Pedro Macati, the Filipinos have
three rows Of trenches most of the dis
tance. Reports from prisoners indicate
that the insurgents construe the peace
negotiations to mean that the Ameri-
cans have had enough of fighting. The
Filipinos are also encouraged by the be-
lief that the Americans are preparing
for an interval of inactivity during the
wet season. This period is sure to be
followed by much suffering. Thou
sands of acres that were under cultiva-
tion last year have not been ploughed
this, and the government will probably
be Obliged to feed thousands, just as it
fed the Cubans
Friendly natives, Amigos, continue to
pour into the American lines by land
and river routes, coming from the terri
tory of insurrection into the country
where the passage Of the two armies has
left no food, and practically throwing
themselves upon the charity of their
conquerors. Such able-bodied men as
are not in the Filipino ranks have been
\ kept by the insurgent leaders to dig
trenches; and old men, women and chill
dren form the mass of the refugees.
These are doing some ploughing, but
they will be confronted with hunger be-
fore they can realize any subsistence
from their crops. The United States
army has organized system of dis
tributing rice at Malolos and some of
the smaller towns where Filipino stores
were captured, but the latter will soon
be exhausted.
The United States transport Morgan
City, who arrived here from San Fran
cisco with six hundred recruits for va
rious regiments sailed to-day for Iloilo
with the troops.
AS it was impossible to take to Spain
the remains of the Spanish general Mon
tero, who was fatally wounded in a re-
cent engagement with the Filipinos in
the Island of Mindanao, and who died
while being brought here from Zambo-
anga on the transport Leon Kill, it
was decided that the interment should
take place in Manila. The funeral took
place to-day, hundreds of Spanish SOL
diers and civilians attending the SER
vices in the cathedral and following the
cortege to the grave with wreaths and
flags. The Spanish papers declare that
Montero was victim of the Spanish
governments neglect.