Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-01
NEWS In BRIEF.
THE END AT HAND.
Complete Collapse Of the Philippine
Rebellion.

Insurgent Government Can no Longer
Claim TO E1ist---Its Omeers Captured
or Ia Hiding---the Army Broken and
acknowledgements Dispatches OF
the Week.
The news from the Philippines during
the past week has clearly foreshadowed the
beginning of the end of the rebellion. Gen.
Otis summarizes the situation in Luzon in
despatch to the war department last Sat
urday, in which he said that the insurgent
government can no longer claim to exist.
its troops and officials are scattered and
Aguinaldo is in hiding. The despatch fol.
lows:
Manila, Nov. 2I.-Claim to government by
insurgents can be made no longer under any
fiction; It's treasurer, secretary interior and
president of congress In our hands; lis presi
dent and remaining cabinet officers in hiding
evidently In different Luzon provinces; its
generals and troops In small bands scattered
through these provinces acting as banditti or
dispersed playing the role OF Amigos, =" with
arms concealed. Indications are that Agui
naldo did not escape through the lines OF
Lawton or Wheaton, but fled westward from
communication to Dagupan established
probably to San Fabian today; by relaying
nine miles Of track with material at hand.
railway communication to that point REDS.
tablished; labor of troops must attend main
tenance.
Another despatch of the same date told
in detail of the surrender of Bautista, the
president of the Filipino congress, who
presented himself to Gen Mac Arthur and
formally renowned all further connection
with the Instruction He was one of the
influential Filipinos who hestated, at the
beginning of the war, as TO which side on
which to cast his lot. He says the Filipino
congress and cabinet are scattered, never
to reassemble. Some of the members, he
adds, have returned to their homes, while
others are flying for safety. Many of the
congressman have resigned, and he be-
lieves the Filipino soldiers will lay down
there arms everywhere as soon as they
learn the truth
AEuinaldO's Last Council.
Manila, Nov. 26.-The last Filipino
council Of war was held by the retreatin
leaders at Bayambang on Nov. 10, in the
house now occupied by Gen. Macarthur.
II was attended by Aguinaldo, Pic del
Pillar, Garcia, Alejandrino and some men,
bers of the so-called Cabinet. Information
has reached Gen. Macarthur from several
sources to the effect that the council recog-
nized the futility of attempting further
resistance to the Americans with united
forces, and agreed that the Filipino troops
should scatter and should hereafter follow
guerrilla methods.
The news which the steamship Brutus
brings from Dagupan dispels all doubts
that the so-called Filipino republic is
crumbling like a house of cards. Aguinal-
do is deserted or being abandoned by the
politicians, and the army, which fort
night ago was entrenched at Tarlac, and
exercised defacto government over nine
tenths of the people of Luzon, is fugitive
in the mountains. The army is scattered
in the hills on both sides of the railroad.
and widely separated attachments are In
the Gordon which Generals Lswton and
Wheaton have cemented.