Evening star., 1899-04-03
MacARTHuR's TROOPS TAKE A REST
Insurgents Keep Up Desultory Firing
Spanish Predictions.

-Spsnish Predictions.
Advices from Manila under date of yes
terday say: The American troops under
Gen. Macarthur are still resting at Malolos,
where everything has been quiet today.
Hcstilites elsewhere-so far as officially
reported-have been limited during the last
tWenty-four hours to an occasional aX-
change of shots between the insurgents and
the troops forming the lines of Gen. Law
ton and Gen Hall, extending from the wa
terworks to La Lonia. But this shooting
has been just active enough to make the
lives of the soldiers burden, and to COM
pei the officers to sleep in trenches, clothed
and in readiness to repel possible attacks.
Most of the Americans are becoming con-
WINGED that the backbone of the lnsurSent
opposition is broken. There are numerous
rumors pointing to an early collapse OF the
insurrection. 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,
Predictions of the spaniards.
The Spaniards, reasoning from their ex-
perience 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 government, 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, dis
solve, only to reappear a other points
This sort of tactics, the SpaniardS say, will
be followed until the wet season comp2ls
the Americans to be housed in barracks
and then the Fiipinos will return and re-
occupy such towns as the United States
troops do not garrison. With the next dry
season repetition of the present opera
tions 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 Spaniards, in all
their domination of the Philippines, never
gave the inhabitants a demonstration of
power comparable in effectiveness 10 that
given them by the United States.
Rebels Anxious to auit.
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, re-
turned there this morning and declared
that 1000 of the Filipino soldiers were
anxious to give up fighting and would do
so but for their officers, who keep them
under arms.
The whole country between Malolos and
Caloocan is now fun of friandless women,
children and old people, who returning
to their homes carrying white flags. The
Americans are trying to gain the conf
dance Of the Inhabitants by proving to
them that if they will return and attend to
their ordinary work peacefully, no harm
will bcfall them. Twu hundred and fifty
civilians came back to their homes in Ma
loios last evening. Two thousand women
and children, with sprinkiing of unarmed
men, supposed to BE- warriors, came to the
outskirts of MalOlos on the seaside of the
city, and afterward sneaked away, carrying
all the goods they could.
There has been no little gOOd-natured
rivalry as to which regiment-the 1st Mon
tana or the 10Th Kansas-is entitled to the
honor Of having raised its flag first in Ma
loi0s. Col Funston and twenty men Of
Company f, Kansas volunteers, claim the
distirc ton. on the ground, as already
cabled, of having entered the town at dou-
ble-quick and raised the companys flag
but the first flag to be recognized officially
was that of Company q of the Montana
infantry.