The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-01
FILIPINO CAMPAIGN.
The Insurgents Decide to Follow
Guerrilla Methods of Warfare.
zAMBOANGA PROVINCE SURRENDERS
A Dispatch from Admiral Watson Received
by the President with Unconcealed sat
isfa elton Bog ginning OF the End of
the Revolution In Mindanao.


Manila. Nov. 27.-The last Filipino
council of war was held by the retreat
ing leaders at Bayambang on Novem-
Der -, in the house now occupied by
Gen. Macarthur. 1t was attended by
Aguinaldo, Pic del Pillar, Garcia, Ale
jandrino and some members of the So
called cabinet. Information has
reached Gen. Macarthur from several
sources to the effect that the council
recognized the futility of attempting
further resistance to the Americans
with united forces and agreed that the
Filipino troops should scatter and
should hereafter follow guerrilla
methods.
Reports of ambuscades and Skin
mishes come from every section of the
country along the railroads. Those
districts seem to be filled with small
bands. Saturday four men of company
ID, Ninth infantry, were foraging be-
yond Bamban when 30 Filipinos took
them in ambush, killing one and cap
turing the other three. The Americans
resisted for half an hour. The firing
being heard at Bamb ban, Lieut.. Frazer,
with a squad followed the retreating
Filipinos several miles. The Ameri-
cans found the body of the soldier
boloed. They burned the hamlet
where the fight took place. Three Fill
ipino riflemen ambushed an American
surgeon near Capas. He shot one and
the others fed.
Between Bamban and Angeles mule
/ 1. &c
and Spaniard, former prisoner of
the Filipinos who was with the train,
was shot. At Malasiqui the officials
who welcomed the Americans were
murdered. This was the only railroad
| town which the Americans did not
garrison and on the night the
troops withdrew band of in
surgents entered, dragged Antonio
Mejia. president of the town, into the
street, and cut his throat. The muir
derers then assassinated the vice presi-
! dent and five members of the town
council in the same manner.
Military activity continues in every
section Col. Bells regiment has add
vanced from Bayambang upon Manag-
tarem, where it is supposed there is a
large insurgent force. Two battalions
of the newly-arrived Twenty-eighth
| infantry has been sent by cascoes to
Bacoor to reinforce the south line.
| Maj. Spence, with SO men of the
| Thirty-second regiment, surrounded a
village near Bautiston during the
night and attacked the place at day
break, capturing Filipino captain and
| 10 men with seven rifles.
The latest news from Gen. Young is
that there are ten cavalrymen and 200
Maca bbees with him, most of the horse
men who started having been compelled
to drop out be 'ause the horses failed
| them.
The Filipinos took the American
| prisoners from " ,toria to San Carlos.
PROVINCE OF ZAMBoANGA sURRENDERs.
Washington, Nov. 27.-Secretary of
the Navy Long Yesterday received a
cablegram from Admiral Watson in
| forming him that the entire province
| of Zamboanga, island of Mindanao,
had surrendered Internationally to
Commander Very, of the Castine. The
surrender was made on the 18th inst.
| The information contained in Admiral
| hdlSou > ulSpdlCl as ItCtlNtu ny inc
president and his advisers with un.
concealed satisfaction. The surrender
of the province of Iamboanga is re-
garded as the beginning of the end of
the revolution in the island of Min
danao and, it is believed, will be a
hard blow to those who are still en-
deavoring to maintain the instruction
in the island of Luzon.
On the 21st inst. Admiral Watson
cabled the navy department that Com
mander Very had captured the city of
Zam boanga on the 10th. He was aided
by friendly natives and Moros and was
holding the town. Pending the ar
rival of reinforcements from Jolo, on
the same day Gen. Otis informed the
war department that he had ordered
two companies of infantry to be sent
tc Fam boanga from Jolo. Fam boanga
is the principal city of the island of
Mindanao, which is the second largest
island of the Philippine group. Advices
from Admiral Watson indicate that the
entire southern half of the island,
which comprises the province of Fam
boanga, has yielded to the American
forces and acceded to the authority of
the United States.