The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-28
Their Forces Scatter and
Fight from Ambush.
LAST ORDER OF FILIPINO COUNCIL
Recognizing the FHtiiity Of Further Re-
.i,tance AsHinaIde and His Cabinet De-
eided that small Bands should Harass the
Enemy a Much as Possible-Admirai
Watson Cables that Entire Province Of
Zamboanga Has Surrendered.

Manila. Nov. 26.-Il y. m.-The last Fill
pino council of war was held by the re-
treating leaders at Bayambang on No
vember i3. in the house now occupied by
Gen. Macarthur. 1t was attended by
Aguinaldo, Pho del Pillar, Garcia, Alejan-
drino. and some members of the so-cailed
cabinet Information has reached Gen.
Macarthur from several sources TO the
effect that the council recognized the fu-
tility of attempting further resistance 10
the Americans with united forces, and
agreed that the Filipino troops should
scatter and should hereafter follow guer-
rilla methods.
The disposition of the generals. with
their approximate forces, is as follows:
Gen. Conception, with $40 men, in New
Egija province; Gen. MacaDolos, with 80
men. at the town of Binaca. province Of
Tarlac; Gen. Pic del Pillar, with 800 men,
northeast of MalolOs; Gen. AquinO, with
500 men, at Arayat; Gen. San Miguel, with
80 men, in Zambalos province: Gen. Mas
cardo, with LOO men, in the mountains
west OF Angeles, and the largest force,
probably under Gen. Trias, in Cavite
province.
Reports of ambuscades and skirmishes
come from every section of the country
dIUilS iUt ldtliUduC. uDot IlStlltlS
| to be filed with small bands. Yesterday
four men Of Company ID, Ninth Infantry,
| were foraging beyond Bamban, when
twenty Filipinos took them in ambush
killing one and capturing the other three
The Americans resisted for half an hour
The firing being heard at Bamban. Lieut..
Frazer, with a squad, followed the re-
treating Filipinos several miles. The
| Americans found the body of the soldier
boloed. They burned the hamlet where
the fight took place. Three Filipino rifle
men ambushed an American surgeon near
Capas. He shot one and the others fed
Murdered Friendly Officials.
Between Bamban and Angeles a mule
train was fired upon by the insurgents,
| and a Spaniard, former prisoner of the
! Fiipinos, who was with the train, was
| shot. At Malasiqui the officials who well
! coined the Americans were murdered.
| This was the only railroad town which
| the Americans did not garrison, and on
| the night the troops withdrew band of
| insurgents entered, dragged Antonio Me-
| jia, president of the town, into the street
| and cut his throat. The murderers then
| assas ssinated the vice president and five
members of the town council in the same
manner and told the frightened natives
who witnessed the slaughter to spread
! the news that a similar fate awaited all
| friends of the Americans.
Military activity continues in every sec
| ton Col Bells regiment has advanced
| from Bayambang upon Mangatarem.
where it is supposed there is large in
surgent force. Two battalions of the
newly arrived TWenty-eighth Infantry
have been sent by caScoeS TO Bacoor, TO
reAenforce the south line.
| Maj. Spence, with fifty men of the Thir-
| ty-second Regiment. surrounded a village
near Bautiston during the night, and at
tackled the place at daybreak, capturing
a Filipino captain and fifteen men, with
seven rifles.
CavaIrymen Compelled 10 Drop Ont.
The latest news from Gen. Young is
that there are ten cavalrymen and 20(
Z Macabebes with him, most of the horse
1 men who started having been compelled
to drop out because their horses failed
them.
The Filipinos took the American pris-
oners from Victoria to San Carlos. on
| the walls of the Victoria prison and OF
the San Carlos convent are the following
names:
Civilians-George Langford. Thomas
Hayes.
Soldiers-Harry Winfield, Phil Better
ton, J. l. Salisbury, A. n. Gordon, +. y.
| Nugent, Frank Stone, John Desmond
George Sackett. David Scott, Martin
| Brennan, Tom Edwards. d. 2. Curran
John Cronin Charles Baker, c. l.. Davis
Leland Smith.
On the walls of the San Carlos convent
were also found the following names:
Civilians-Charles Bird; w. ]. Sheehy
F. f. Huber.
Sailors-Edward Burke. battle-shir
Oregon; c. b. Powers, gunboat Urdaneta
John J. Farley, b. j. Greene, Tilden Her.
bert