Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-08
ACTIVE
PLAN TO KEEP ALIVE ARMED
OPPOSITION TO UNITED STATES.
WILL WAGE GUERILLA WAR
When Rainy Season Sets In-Insurgent
Organization Said to Be Strong In
Northern ProVinces-Some Leaders
Being Pretending Supporters of
American Administration.

| Manila, March 4.-RepOrts have ar
rived from various sources, including
army officers and heads of commercial
houses with agents throughout the ISL
ands, of continued activity among the
| insurgents, who are endeavOring to
keep alive armed opposition to the
| United States, and are planning to con-
tinue the instruction with guerilla
warfare on d larger scale when the
rainy season begins. A person holding
position second only to that of the
| governor general tells the Associated
Press he is convinced that the insur-
gent organization has been remarkably
renablitated during the past month,
particularly in the northern provinces.
He says the insurgents have a secret
organization, patterned after Kat
punan methods, even in the strongest
garrisoned towns, affording a perfect
means of communication and that the
machinery is managed from Manila,
some of the leaders being Filipinos pre-
tending to be supporters Of the Amer
lean administration, while many Of the
municipal officers installed by the
army also form a part of the machin
cry. Two correspondents of leading
lAmerican WeeklieS, who have travelled
| for a month in Benget and Ilocas, with
letters from the ,inSurgent chiefs,
going alone so miles from the garri-
sons, are being everywhere Hospitality
received, and say the people make no
secret of sympathy with the
insurrection. Though it is ad-
mitted that Filipino soldiers
abuse them, they still protect
these soldiers from American scouting
parties. They claim to have commu-
nication with Aguinaldo and Palermo,
/ in the northern mountains. Manila is
full of civil and military officials of
all ranks Of Aguinaldo's government,
who were captured, or surrendered
and brought here and released, on
| promises 10 refrain from agitation.
| While many insurgent municipal Of
| ficers were continued in office on their
| taking an oath of allegiance, residents
who are acquainted with them have
promises. All the civil officials of
Tarlac, the capital of the province of
that name, numbering eleven persons,
have been arrested, charged with plot
ting, and two insurgents have been
captured at MalabOn with incriminat-
ing papers, showing the concealmen1
of $4,000 from the natives.
Some Of the municipal governments
appear loyal and efficient. On the
other hand one American general de-
clares he believes that those in his
province are agI,ators of the insur- |
rection. Insurgent pamphlets are !
being circulated, asserting that the !
American promises of good govern |
ment are merely masks. When the |
trial Of the guerillas charged with |
murder is finished 1t is believed by the |
comm salon that they will be found |
guilty. Indictments against others
have been prepared. No information
having been received from General |
Bates expedition, it is presumed he
his moved inland, where comunica
ton is impracticable. The army
throughout the island of Luzon is
working hard, securing the country
for Insurgents and killing few daily.
The section fire. Manila to Dagupan
has 6een tho rhly cleared, the
scouting partie, ing unable to find
any Insurgents EN-. Funston and
Co!. Nenna took 200 men through the
mountains to Balor, on the eastern
coas-. vi+ho--A -seeting an insurgent
But they are active along the northern
coast from Dagupan to Apart, and
occasional reports come Of American
being killed or disappearing.
III the southern provinces the insur
gents continue to harass the Ameri-
;ans garrisons by night demonstra-
tons