Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-04-06
QUIET AT MALOLOS.
The American Troops Resting at
the Filipino Capital.
VIEWSENTERTAINED At WASHINGTON
The OCCUPATION OF Malolos Not Likely TO
Have the Important Results Hoped,
for--AgonoIlIo's Opinion of
tho Capture.

troops under Gen. Macarthur are still
resting at Malolos, where everything
was quiet yesterday. Hostilities else.
where so far as officially reported
have been limited during the last "a
hours to an occasional exchange of
shots between the insurgents and the
troops forming the lines of 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 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 instruction.
One of these is that Gen, 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
believe 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 gov
eminent, 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 say, 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, repetition of the present
operations will begin.
The Americans are trying to gain
the confidence of the inhabitants by
proving to them that if they return
and attend to their ordinary work,
peacefully, no harm will befall them.
Two hundred and fifty civilians came
back to their homes in Malolos Satur-
day evening. Two thousand women
and children, with sprinkling of I'M
armed men, supposed to be warriors,
came to the outskirts of Malolos on
the sea side of the city and afterward
sneaked away, carrying all the goods
they could. There has been no little
good natured rivalry as to which regi-
ment-the First Montana or the Twen-
tieth Kansas-is entitled to the honor
of having raised its flag first in Malo-
los. Col Funston and 20 men of COM
pany e, Kansas volunteers, claim the
distinction, OH the ground, as already
cabled, of having entered the town at
double quick and raised the company's
flag, but the first flag to be recognized
officially was that of company e. of
the Montana infantry.
VIEWS ENTERTAINED AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, April 3.-The occupa-
ton of Malolos by Gen. MacArthur's
troops, it is now admitted by all ex-
cept the most hopeful war department
officials, does not seem probable to
have anything like the important re-
suits which were hoped for here. In
stead of practically marking the end
of the Filipino instruction, the fall
of Malolos and the dispersion of the
insurgents under Aguinaldo's imme-
date command appears to be nothing
more than incidents of the campaign
which will have many ramihcations
and will drag along for weeks or even
months in different sections of the
island of Luzon. That Gen. Otis him
self does not look on the fall of Ma
lolos as decisive is shown by his cable
gram to the war department, in which
he says he is preparing for ontinued
active campaign.
Another proclamation of the Presi-
dents commissioners will soon be is
sued to convince the deluded follow.
ers of Aguinaldo that continued re-
sistance is futile and that it is not the
intention of the United States to OPP
press them. The promise of a local
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every inducement made to bring about
some understanding that will put an
end to the cruel loss of life on both
sides.
AGoNCILLo's OPINION OF THE CAPTURE.
Paris, April 8. -Agoncillo, the agent
of .Aguinaldo, in the course of an in
terview published yesterday in La
Patrie, says:
The capture OF Malolos Is not us important
as the Americans are trying to make it appear.
The Filipino government had already de-
termlned upon removal to San Fernando, and
small detachment of troops was left with
orders to burn the town and thus to draw the
Americans inland. Two months OF rain and
fever will save the Fillpinos th.ir ammunition
and good deal Of trouble. and the war will
not end while single Filipino remains to bear
arms
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Case of sympathetic OOntagiOD,
St Louis, April S.-As the result of
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