Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-08
THE ENEMY IS LYING LOW.
FiIipinos Show No Desire to Re-
sumo HostiIities.
TROOPS RESTING AT MALoLoS.

MANILA, April 3.-The American
troops under General Macarthur are
still resting at Maloios. where every
thing has been quiet. Hostilities else
where-so far as officially reported
have been limited during the last
twenty-four hours to an occasional
exchange of shots between the insur-
gents and the troops forming the lines
of General Hall, extending from the
waterworks to La Lonia. But this
shooting has been just active enough
to make the lives of the soldiers
burden and to compel the officers to
sleep in trenches, clothed and in readi-
ness to repei possible attacks
Most of the Americans are becoming
convinced that the backb bone OF the in
surgent opposition is broken. There
are numerous rumors pointing to an
early collapse of the instruction. One
of these is that General Pho del Pillar,
the best fighter among the Filipino
officers, will desert Aguinaldo and
give his support to the Americans
The Spaniards, reasoning from their
experience of the natives. refuse to be-
lieve that the rebellion is anywhere
near put down. They declare that
! the FiIipinos will not take their de-
feat at MaIolos, with the loss of the
CITY and the removal of their so-called
| government, seriously to heart. On the
contrary, the Spaniards predict that
the insurgents will hover near the
! American lines, bothering them as
much as possible, and when attacked
in force, dissolve, only to reappear at
other points. This sort of tactics, the
| Spaniards saw, will be followed until
| the wet season compels the Americans
to be housed in barracks, and then the
Filipinos will return and re-occupy
such towns as the United States troops
| do not garrison. With the next dry
season, a repetition OF the present OPP
erations 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
| Spaniards, in all their domination of
the Philippines, never gave the lnhab-
itants demonstration OF power COM
parable in effectiveness to that given
them by the United States.
4 priest and two members of the So
called Filipino congress, who hid
themselves IN the woods during the
fighting which preceded the capture of
/ Malolos, have returned there and de-
clared that 1000 OF the Filipino SOL
diers were anxious to give up fighting,
and would do so but for their officers,
who keep them under arms.
| The whole country between Maloios
and Caloocan is now full of friendlies
women and old people-who are re-
turning to their homes carrying white
| flags The Americans are trying to
gain the confidence of the Inhabitants
by proving to them that if they re-
| turn and attend to their ordinary
work, peacefully, no harm will befall
| them. Two hundred and fifty civil
| ians came back to their homes in Ma
lolos last evening.
Two thousand women and children,
| with a sprinkling of unarmed men,
supposed to be warriors, came to the
| outskirts of Malolos on the sea side OF
the city and afterward snealzed away.
carrying all the goods they could.
There has been no little good ma
tured rivalry as to which regiment
| the First Montana or the Twentieth
Kansas-is entitled to the honor OF
having raised its flag first in Malolos
| Colonel Funston and twenty men OF
Company E, Kansas volunteers, claim
the distinction. on the ground, of hav
ing entered the town at double quicl
and raised the company's flag, but the
first flag to be recognized officially
was that of Company G, of the Mon
tana infantry.