The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-04-03
The PHILIPPINE CAMPAIGN
GEN MdCARTYUR,S Troops STYJT,
RESTING At M1LOLOS.

PEELED to Sleep In the Ire
cans Becoming Convinced That tn,
Backbone of fInsurrection is Broken,
Manila, April $3.50 p. m.-The Amer
lean troops under General Macarthur
are still resting at Malolos, where
everything has been quiet to-day Hos
t1lities elsewhere, so far as officially re-
ported, have been limited during the
last twentyfour hours to an occasional
eXchange OF shots between the insur-
gents and the troops forming the lines
OF General Lawton and General Hall,
extending from the waterworks to La
lon1a. But this shooting has been just
active enough to make the lives of SOL
diers burden and to compel the Off
GERS to sleep in the trenches clothed in
readiness to repel possible attacks. Most
Of the Americans are becoming convince
ed that the backbone of the insurgent
opposition Is broken. There are numer-
ouo rumors pointing to an early coll
lapse OF the insurrection. One of these
Is that General Pho del Pillar, the best
hghter 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 be-
lieve that the rebellion is anywhere near
put down. They declare that the Fill
pirlos will not take their defeat at Maio-
los with the loss of the city and the re-,
moval of their so-called government, Sc
riously 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 COM
pels the Americans to be housed in bar
racks, and then the Filipinos will return
and reoccupy such towns as the United
States troops do not garrison. With
the next dry season a repetition of the
present operations would 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 domination of the Philippines
1lCNCI save lllS llll1DlldltS d dCIIlOll-
stration Of power comparable in effec-
tiveness 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 fighting
which preceded the capture of Malolos,
rturned there this morning and declared
that two thousand of the Filipino SOL
R~rl,f f;,,S-
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 mostly women, |
children and old people, who are return |
ing to their homes, carrying white flags.
The Americans are trying to gain the
Of the inhabitants by proving
to them that if they will return and at
tend to their ordinary work peacefully
no harm will befall them. Two hun
dred and fifty civilians came back to
their homes in Malolos last evening.
Two thousand women and children,
with a sprnking of unarmed men, sup
posed to be warriors, came to the out
skirts of Malolos on the sea side of the
city and afterwards sneaked away, car
rying all the goods they could. There
has been no little good -natured rivalry
as to which regiment, the First Monta-
ma or the Twentieth Kansas, is entitled
to the honor of having raised its flag
first in Malolos. Colonel Funston and
twenty men Of Company E, 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
flag to be recognized officially was that
If Company G, Of the Montana infan-
nv