The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-03
ITS BACKBONE BROKEN
General Belief That Filipino In
surrection Is at an End.
THEORY OF THE SPANIARDS
They Are OF the Opinion That the Rebels
Will Continue to Fight Com
pany G of Butte Raised
the Flag.

Manila, April 2, $50 p. m.-The
American troops under General Mac
Arthur are still resting at Malolos,
where everything has been quiet to-
day. Hostilities elsewhere-so far as
officially reported-have been limited
during the last "a hours to an OCCASION
al exchange of shots between the in
surgents and 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 burden, and to compel
the officers to sleep in trenches clothed
and in readiness to repel possible at
tacks.
Most of the Americans are becoming
convinced that the backbone of the
insurgent opposition is broken. There
are numerous rumors pointing to an
early collapse of the insurrection. One
of these is that General Pho del Pila,
the best fighter among the Filipino Of
ficers, will desert Aguinaldo and give
his support to the Americans. The
Spaniards, reasoning from their ex-
perience of the natives, refuse to be-
lieve that the rebellion is anywhere
near put down. They declare that the
Filipinos will not take their defeat at
Malolos with the loss of the city and
the removal of their so-called govern
ment seriously to heart. On the con-
trary, the Spaniards predict that the
insurgents will hover near the Amer
ican lines, bothering them as much as
possible, and when attacked in force,
dissolve, only to reappear at other
points. This sort of tactics, the Span
10 will ha fn1lnSvaI
wet season compels the Americans to
be housed in barracks, and then the
Filipinos will return and reoccupy such
towns as the United States troops do
not garrison. With the next dry sea-
son a repetition of the present opera
tions 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 domina-
tion Of the Philippines, never gave the
inhabitants demonstration of power
comparable in effectiveness with that
given them by the United States.
A priest and two members of the So
called Filipino congress, who hid them
selves in the wood during the fighting
which preceded the capture of Malolos,
returned there this morning and de-
clared that 1000 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 Malolos
| 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
| to gain the confidence of the inhabit-
| ants by proving to them that if they
will return and attend to their ordi-
nary work peacefully no harm will be-
fall them. Two hundred and fifty civil
| ians came back to their homes in Ma
lolos last evening. Two thousand wo-
men and children, with sprinl1ling OF
unarmed men, supposed to be warriors
came to the outskirts of Malolos out
side of the city, and afterward sneakeG
away, carrying all the goods they
| could
| There has been no little good na
| tured rivalry as to which regiment
| the 1st Montana or the Goth Kansas, is
entitled to having raised it's flag first II
Malolos. Colonel Funston and 20 mer
of Company E, Kansas volunteers
claim the distinction. on the ground
as already cabled. of having entered
the town at double quick and raised
the companys flag; but the first f1as
! to be recognized officially was that o
Company G of the Montana infantry.