The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07
IL Il MA N y. 7. soon BE ENDED.
Americans Believe Backbone ofFill5
Pine Instruction Is Broken.

: If -
Pine lnsurrection Is Broken.
Many OF Aguinaldo's Soldiers Said to
BE Ready to give Up-spaniards
81 at Mnn1laaAre Not So p
Hopeful. 7sss'F =, a
Manila, April 3.--The American
troops under Gen. Macarthur are still
resting at Malolos, where everything
has been quiet. Hosti]ities elsewhere
so far as officially reported
been limited during the last "a hours't to
an occasional exchage of shots between
the insurgents and the troops forming
the lines OF Gen. Lawton and Gen. Hall,
extending from the waterworks to La
Lonia. But this shooting has been Just
active enough to make the lives of the:
soldiers a BURDEN. and to compel the
omcers to sleep in trenches, clothed and
IN readiness to repel possible attacks. -,
Mostsof 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 Instruction. One
OF these is that Gen. Pho Del Piler, the
pest lighter among the Filipino officers,
Will desert Aguinaldo and give his sup
port to the Americans
The Spaniards, reasoning from their
experience OF the natives, refuse to be-
heve 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 govern
ment, seriously at heart. On the con-
trary, the Spaniards predict that the in
surgents will hover near the American
lines, bothering them as much as posi-
bic, and when attacked in force, dis
solve, only to reappear at other points.
This sort of tactics-the Spaniards say
will be followed until the wet season
compels the Americans to be housed in
barracks, and then the Filipinos will
return and occupy such towns as the
United States troops do not garrison.
With the next dry season repetition
of the present operations will begin,
Time alone will show how much there is
in this theory; but, as against it, it
must be borne in mind that the Span
iards, in all their domination of the
Philippines, never gave the inhabitants
a demonstration of power comparable
in effectiveness to that given them by
the United States. ~,e%
A priest and two smembers of the So
called Filipino congress, who hid them
selves in the woods during the fight
ing, which preceded the capture of
Malolos, returned there this morning
and declared that 1900 of the Filipino
soldiers We're anxious to give up fight
ing and would do SO but for their, Of
ficers, 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 inhab-
itants by proving to them that if they
will return and attend to their or
binary work peacefully, no harm will
befan them. Two hundred and fifty
civilians came back to their homes in
Malolos Saturday, evening. Two thou
sand 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 sneaked 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
to the honor Of having raised
it's flag first in Malolos. COL Funston
and 20 men Of company E, Kansas vol
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 to be recognized officially was
that of company G., of the Montana in
fantry.
Tacoma, WASH, April 3.-Foreign
business houses lost over 81, 900, 900 by
the destruction of Iloilo by the Fill
pinos before Gen. Miller captured the
city. Steven & Co., an English firm, es-
Inmates it's loss at $4,000 on stored
hemp. Numerous other firms had ware
houses and stocks destroyed: English
insurance companies will be the chief
losers. The French firm of jewelers., La
Estrella del Norte, lost $500, 1000 of prop
erty.
Washington, April 3.-With Informal
ton showing that the insurgent army
is disorganized, d,with the announce
ment from Gen. Otis of his intention to
continue an active campaign, the au-
thorities express themselves as very
we'll satisfied with the situation in the
Philippines.
Washington, April 3.-Adjt. Gen.
Corbin cabled Gen. Otis saying that the
secretary of war desired if possible that
the dead of the present campaign be
returned to the United States on the
early transports, and asked the opin-
ion of the general on the subject.
Gen. Otis cabled Saturday that it
would be impossible to send the bod
les home now. The climatic condi-
tions are such as to make it dangerous
to the health of the people who would
handle the bodies. He was of the opin-
ion that six months later the remains
of the dead could be returned to the
United States.