The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04
INSURGENTS TO KEEP 1T UP.
RECUPERATING THEIR FORCES IN
NORTHERN LUZON.

They Are Evidently Preparing for
an Active Guerilla Warfare when
the Rainy Season Begins-Inhabi-
tants Stand by Them in Spite OF
Their ODpressiOn-Munici on
GERS Caught Plotting Against the
Americans.
Manila, March S.-Reports reached the
Associated Press from various sources, in
cluding army officers and the heads of
commercial houses with agents through
out the islands, of continued activity
among the insurgents, who are trying to
keep alive the armed opposition to the
United States and TO continue the insur-
rection with guerilla warfare on larger
scale when the rainy season begins.
A person holding position second only
to that of the governor general, tells the
Associated Press that he is convinced that
the insurgent organization has been re-
markably rehabilitated during the past
month, particularly in the northern prov
inces.
He says the insurgents have a secret
organization patterned after the Kalpu-
nan methods, even in the strongest gar
risons of the towns, affording perfect
means of communication, and that the
machinery is managed from Manila, some
of the leaders being Filipinos pretending
to be supporters OF the American admin
istration, many of the municipal govern
ments installed by the army forming
part of the machinery
Keeping Up Insurrection.
Two correspondents of leading American
weeklies who have Travelled for month
in Benguet and Ilocos, with letters from
insurgent chiefs, going alone fifty miles
from garrisons and being everywhere hos
pitably received say the people make no
secret OF their sympathy with the insur-
rection. Though admitting that the Fill
pino soldiers abuse them, they still pro-
tect these soldiers from the American
scouting parties. They claim to have
communication with Aguinaldo. Paterno,
in the northern mountains of Manila, is
full of civil and military officials of all
ranks of Aguinaldo's government, who
were captured or surrendered and who
were brought here and released on prom
ises to refrain from agitation.
While many of the insurgent municipal
officers were continued In office on taking
the oath of allegiance, residents who are
acquainted with them have little faith
A
the civil officials of Tarlac, capital of the
province of that name, numbering eleven
persons, have been arrested and charged
with plotting and two insurgent agents
have been captured at Malabon with in
eliminating papers and $1,000 collected
from the natives.
Some of the municipal governments APP
pear loyal and efficient. On the other
hand one American general declares he
believes that the majority in his province
are agents of the insurrection.
Promises Are Questioned.
A fresh issue of fnsurgent pamphlets is
being circulated, asserting that the Amer
lean promises of good government are
merely a mask for commercial exploitat ton
of the Philippines, quoting Senator Bev-
eridge's speech and an editorial from a
Washington newspaper, headed Let Us
Be Honest"
The trial of the guerilla charged with
murder is finished, and it is believed that
the commissions verdict will be guilty
Indictments against others have been pre-
pared.
No report has been received from Gen.
Bates expedition. He has probably
moved inland, where communication with
him is impracEcable.
The army throughout the Island of Lu-
zon is working hard, securing the country
and killing a few insurg gents daily. The
section from Manila TO Dagupan has been
thoroughly cleared, the scouting parties
being unable TO find any insurgents
Gen. Funston and Col Kennan took 200
men through the mountains to Baler, on
the eastern coast, without meeting any in
surgents. But they are active along the
northern coast from Dagupan to Aparri.
Occasional reports come of an American
soldier being killed or disappearing.
In the southern provinces the in
surgents continue TO harass the nAmer-
lean garrisons by night demonstrations.