The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-04-08
1T MAY SOON BE ENDED
Americans Believe Backbone of Fill
Pine Insurrection Is Broken.
Many of AguinnIdo's Soldiers Said to
lie Ready 10 Give Up-Spnniards
mt Manila Are Not So
Hopeful.

| Manila, April 3.--The American
/ troops under Gen. Macarthur are still
resting at Alalolos, where everything
has been quiet. Hostilities elsewhere
so far as officially reported-have
been limited during the last "a hours to
an occasional eXchage of shots between
the insurgents and the troops forming
the lines of Gen. Lawton and Gen. 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 readiness to repel possible attacks.
Most of the Americans are becoming
convinced that the backbone of the i'm
surgent opposition is broken. There
are numerous rumors pointing to an
early collapse of the insurrection. One
of these is that Gen. Pho Del Piler, the
best fighter among che Filipino officers,
will desert Aguinaldo and give his sup
port to the Americans.
The Spaniards, reasoning from their
| experience of the natives, refuse to be-
lieve that the rebellion is anywhere
rear 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 at heart. On the con-
trary, the Spaniards predict that the in
| Surgents will hover near the American
lines, bothering them rs much as possi-
! BILE, and when attacked in force, dis
solve, only to reappear at other points.
! This sort of tacticS-the Spaniards say
! will be followed until the wet season
! compels The Americans to be housed in
barracks, and then the Filipinos will
! return and occupy such towns as the
! United States troops do not garrison.
With the next dry season repetition
: of the present operations 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 Span
iards, in all their domination of the
Philippines, never gave the inhabitants
demonstration of power comparable
in effectiveness to that given them by
the United States.
a priest and two members of the So
called Filipino congress, who hid them
selves in the woods during the fight
ing, which preceded the capture of
Malolos, returned there this morning
and declared that 1000 of the Filipino
soldiers were anxious to give up fight
ing and would do so but for their Of
ficcrs, who keep them under arms.
The whole country between Malolos
and Caloocan is now full of friendless
women, children and old people, who
are returning to their homes, carrying
white flags. The Americans are trying
to gain the confidence of the inhab-
itants by proving to them that if they
will return and attend to their or
binary work peacefully, no harm will
befall them. Two hundred and fifty
civilians came back to their homes in
Malolos Saturday evening. Two thou
sand women and children, with a
sprinkling of unarmed men, supposed
to be warriors, came to the outskirts
of Malolos on the seaside of the city
and afterwards sneaked away, carrying
all the goods they could.
There has been no little good natured
rivalry as to which regiment-the First
Montana or the Twentieth Kansas-is
entitled to the honor of having raised
it's flag first in Malolos. Col. Funston
and 20 men of company f., Kansas vol
unteers, claim the distinction, on the
ground, as already cabled, of having
entered the town at double quick and
raised the company's flag, but the
first to be recognized officially was
that of company G., of the Montana in
fantry.
Tacoma, Wash, April 3.-Forcign
business houses lost over 81 100000 by
the destruction of lloilo by the Fill
pinos before Gen. Miller captured the
city. Steven q Co., an English firm CT
Inmates its loss at Sli0,O0O on stored
hemp. Numerous other firms had ware
houses and stocks destroyed. English
insurance companies will be the chief
losers. The French firm of jewellers. La
Estrclla del Norte, lost $500, 900 of prop
erty.
Washington, April 3.-With informa-
ton showing that the insurgent army
is disorganiZed, and with the announce
ment from Gen. Otis of his intention to
continue an active campaign, the au-
InOTllPS tNDTtSS tHcIlSelNcS us very
well satisfied with the situation in the
Philippines.
Washington, April 3.-Adjt. Gen.
Corbin cabled Gen. Otis saying that the
secretary of war desired if possible that
the dead of the present campaign be
returned to the United States on the
early transports, and asked the opin-
ion of the general on the subject.
Gen. Otis cabled Saturday that it
would be impossible to send the bod
les home now. The climatic condi-
tons are such as to make it dangerous
to the health of the people who would
handle the bodies. He was of the opin-
ion that six months later the remains
of the dead could be returned to the
United States.
Death List About Eighty.
London, April 3.-The morning pa