The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-03

MANILA, April 2, 6:3o p. m.-The
American troops under General Mac
Arthur, are still resting at Malolos.
where everything has been quiet to-day.
Hostilities elsewhere. go far as officially
reported have been limited during the
last twcnty-four hours to an occasional
exchange of shots between the insur-
gents and the troops forming the lines
OF General Lawton and General Hall,
extending from the water works to La
Lonia. But this shooting has been Just
active enough to make the lives OF the
soldiers a burden and to compel the
officers to sleep In trenches, clothed and
in readiness to repcl possible attacks.
Most OF the Americans nre becoming
convinced that the backbone OF the in
surgent opposition Is broken. There
are numerous rumors pointing to an
early collapse of the insurrection.
One Of these Is TINT General Pic del
Pillar. the best fighter among the Fill
pino officers, Will desert Aguinaldo and
give his support to the Americans.
Spanish Predictions.
The Spaniards, reasoning from their
experience OF the natives, refuse to be-
licve that the rebellion Is anywhere
near put down. They declare that the
Fil!p!nos vii! not take their defeat at
Malolos with the loss OF the city and
the removal of their so-called' govern
mer.. seriously to heart. On the con-
trary thc Spanisrds predict that the
insurgents Will hover near the Ameri-
can lines. hothcrlng them as much rs
possible, and when attacked In force,
dissolve only TO reappcar at other
points. This sort OF tactics, the Span
iards say. will be followed until the wet
season ccmpels the Americans TO be
housed In barracks and then the Fill
plnos will return and reoccupy such
towns because the United States troops
DO not garrison, H g
With the next dry season n repetition
OF the present operation, will begin.
Tine alone Will show how much there Is
IN this theory; but as against 1t. It must
be tcrnc in mind that the Spaniards In
all their domination OF the Philippines
never gave the Inhabitants q demon
stration of power comparable In effect
iytness to that given them by the
United States.
Want to Surrender.
a priest and two members of the So
called Filipino congress who hid them
selves in the woods during the fighting
which preceded the capture OF Malolos,
returned there this morning and de-
clarcd that 2,c0t of the Filipino soldiers
were anxious TO give up fighting and
would do so but for their officers, who
keep them under arms.
The whole country between Mnlolos
and Caloocan Is now full OF friendlies,
women. children and old people who
are returning TO their. homes, carrying
white flags. The Americans are trying
10 gain the confidence of the inhabi-
tfnts by proving to them that II they
VIII return and attend to their ordinary
work Peacefully no harm will hefall
them. Two hundred and fifty civilians
came back to their homes In Malolos
last evening Two thousand women
and children with a sprinkling OF un.
armed men, supposed to be warriors
came to the outskirts Of Malolos on The
sea side Of the city and afterwards
theaked away, carrying all the goods
they could.
There has been no little good naturcd
riFalry ms TO which regiment, The
First Montana or the Twentieth Kan.
sas, Is entitled to the honor of having
raised Its flag first in Malolos. Colonel
Funston and twenty members of Com.
pany l.. of the Twentieth Kansas
claim the distinction, on the ground as
already cabled, of having entered tho
town at double quick and raised the
company's flag, but The first flag to be
recognized officially. was that OF Com.
pahy G, of the Montana infantry.