The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-13
.ACUINALDO
A FUGITIVE.
Has Fled to the Mountains
Without a Guard.
Pillar is Dead and Conception
Has Surrendered.
PRISONERS RELEASED.
2,SOO Spaniards on the Way to
Manila.
Situation Now is Worse Than
an Indian War.
PRISONERS RELEASED.

Manila, Dec. 13.-General Young re-
ports the rescue of Brutne. Of the Ne
vada regiment, and Edwards, OF the
gunboat Yorktown, who have been held
prisoners by the FilipinOs. General
Tino conveying the American prisoners
north, is hOtly pursued. Aguinaldo is
a fugitive in the mountains his body
guard having been destroyed and
Gregoric del Pillar killed. General Con-
cepcion has surrendered.
The LIE Panto province has been clear
ed of insurgents. The navy co-operated
with the army on the west coast.
Two thousand eight hundred released
Spanish prisoners are coming to Ma
nila-
the Seventeenth infantry, surrounded
and captured in a village near A1alasqul
a party of guerrillas who had made
their headquarters there. The party
included the band which aSsaSsinated
seven officials at Malasqui for friend
Iness to the Americans.
All are insurgents who became ban
dts when the disintegratiOn of the Fill
pinO army began. They kept the coun-
try around Malasqui in state of terror
for several weeks and committed tWen-
ty-f1ve murders in less than that num-
Der of days. When caught they were
promptly sent to General Macarthur s
headquarters at Bayamabang by train.
It is expected that they will be speed
lily tried and either shot or hanged as
an example.
The whole country north of San
Fernando and between San Fernando
and Manila, except within the perma-
nent line of troops around the citisf5
and the closely patrOlled stretches of
railway, SWarmS with similar bands.
Probably they will be increased by men
J from Pillars army, many of whom are
making their way south to join the in
Surgent force in CaVite province. These
people, for the most part, succeeded in
lodging General Grant, Colonel Bell
and Colonel Hoods troops, who are
securing the country for them. They
devote their energies to ambushing
: COmmissary wagons and to picking up
soldiers who leave their commands.
! Every day some wagon train is fired
7 upon or some soldier diSa ppears.
General Wheeler'S secretary, Mr.. Car
] rett, was disarmed and slashed by
! bOlOman almost within sight of head
quarters, his assailant pursuing him
nearly into the headquarters building.
/ The policy of these ruffians is to make
/ the country uninhabitable for Ameri-
| cans and to frIghten natives into re
framing from giving assistance to the
! Americans as well to compel the in
| habitants to support the insurrection.
! Frequently they raid and loot towns.
| The brother of the president of linus
( went outside the town the other day
/ to harvest some rice. He was captured
by his cOmpatriOts, accused of being a
spy and executed. Only d small proper
tion of the insurgent arms have been
. surrendered and the problem of sup
3
thing but easy of solution Some of the
American officers think it worse than
fighting Indians, owing to the difficult
ties of the country and the trouble in
locating the enemy, who resort, when
hard pressed, to the amigo dodge and
hide their guns. Some of the Americans
favor the issuance of a proclamation
declaring all natives found with arms
to be bandits, punishable as criminals,
instead of being treated as prisoners of
/ war
Information has been received at
: headquarters that 500 Spanish prisoners
/ have been shipped from Nigan to Ma
Mia and that I 500 others have been as
] sembled in Vigan, including General
! Penay. Probably these are Spaniards
/ released by General YOung'S troops in
/ the Bengul district where they were
| concentrated by the insurgents.
| CHANGE TO DICTATORSHIP.
| London. Dec. 13.-Reuter'S Telegram
| company has received the following dis
| patch from Hong Kong:
! The iusurEent government $50 called)
of the Philippines win be changed to d
/ dictatorship, to continue hOStilitieS
I against the Americans exclusively by
j the methods of guerrilla warfare. The
! Filipino army is being split UP into small
/ bands the troops taking an oath before
! eepara tiOn that they will fight until
/ their cOuntry's rights are recognized.
"A force. of United States mariners
! who landed at Nigan, South uOcos
! province. from the battleship Oregon,
I was defea ted by the FilipinOs under Gen.
/ Tino on December 4. The Manila news
| papers despite the censorship ad-
! nit that General LawtOn is missing"
The foregoing dispatch was evidently
! sent by the Filipino junta to Hong
Kong.