The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-12
A GUERILLA WAR.
Filipino Insurgents Are Con-
testing Every Step
With the Advancing American
Forces.
trenches ARE BUILT
From One Town to Another
Throughout LuZOn.
They Have Learned How to
Avoid Being Slaughtered.

! New York, April IA Manila special
says:
While it is probable that there is an
end to the big enga agements in the Phil
ippines between the Americans and the
F'iIipinos, the war is not at an end by
any means.
1t is the universal opinion among
army men here that it will require the
presence OF $4,000 American troops to
occupy the territory that has been
taken and to keep open communication
among the islands.
Gen. LawtOn's advance promises to
meet with a harassing resistance
Trenches are built by the enemy from
town to town. On all sides the insur-
gents are nightly in communication by
means of signal fires.
They avoid being caught in trap
and are quick to harass the flank. Since
the 25th the enemy's. losses have not
been more than double ours.
Our kindness to the insurgent wound
ed and prisoners does not allay the
dOgged enmity- Only a small portion of
the population of the north have re-
turned to their homes. Only the diseased
and aged remain in Santa Cruz.
AguinaldO is reported to be in San
Fernando and still in absolute charge
of the defenses of the new capital and
of Calumpit.
LAWTON'C CAMPAIGN ENDED.
Washington, april 12.-The war de-
partment has received a dispatch from
Gen. Otis saying that Gen. Lawton' 5
campaign has been concluded with
great success. The war department Of
fcials say that the result is very graf
flying.
OTIS REPORT.
Washington, April 12.-The following
cablegram has been received from Gen.
Otis:
Manila. April 12-Adjutant General.
Washington: Yesterday. in the lake
region, Lawton pursued insurgents
eastward from Santa Cruz, dispensing
them. Captured all the larger vessels
used in the lake trade and Spanish
gunbOat- He is now endeavoring to
pass them from river, where concealed.
into lake.
Wheaton drove enemy ten miles to
! eastward of railway line of communica-
tions with Malolos. Lawton's and
WheatOn's casualties few and slight
as enemy made no stand.
Notified by Spain that she will evacu-
ate Mindora and Polo soon.
CHASING FILIPINOS.
Manila, April 12-Gen. Wheaton
started at daylight with the Tenth
Pennsylvania and the Second Oregon
regiments and two guns to drive the
; flank between the railroad and the foot
| hills. He met with slight resistance
| near Santa Maria and had one man
wounded. But the enemy bOlted when
! SnOIl0u Dy the dflIlleTy ana burned ana
| abandoned the town of Santa Maria,
! where a thousand FilipinOs were re-
| ported to have been concentrated. Dur
| ing the rest of the day the enemy was
| in full retreat towards the mountains
! burning the villages behind the re-
| treating force.
Occasionally a few of the insurgents
| dropped to the rear and fired at the
] advancing American troops from the
| jungle, apparently with the idea that
| this would check our advance and cover
/ the retreat of the Filipinos. But find
! ing these tactics Intellectual they scram-
/ bled after the main body. The Ameri-
| materially strengthened and it is not
likely the insurgents will succeed in
getting in the future to as close quar-
| ters as they did yesterday even if they
return from the mountains.