The age-herald., 1900-03-04
THE INSURGENTS
 ARE AGAIN ACTIVE Plans Are Being Formed to Con-
 tinue the Insurrection.
NO REGARD FOR PROMISES
It is Said That Many of the Officials Who Have Sworn Allegiance Are Helping to Reorgan-
 ize the Army

Manila, March 3.-(9:55 D. m.)-Reports reach the Associated Press from various sources, including army officers and the heads of commercial houses with agents throughout the islands of continued activi- ty among the insurgents who are endeavor- ing to keep alive the armed opposition to the United States and are planning to con tinue the insurrection with guerrilla war fare on a large scale when the rainy sea- son begins.
 A person holding a position second only to that of the governor general tells the Associated Press he Is convinced that the insurgent organization has been remarkably rehabilitated during the past month, par ticuiarly in the northern provinces. He says the insurgents have secret organiza- ton patterned after the Katipunan methods even in the strongest garrisoned towns, af- fording perfect means of communication, and that the machinery Is managed from Manila, some of the leaders being tllip!noS pretending to be supporters of the admin.s- traitor of the municipal governments m stalled by the army, forming part Of the machinery.
 I've correspondents of leading American weeklies who have travelled tcc montn i'll Benguel and Ilcos with letters from insur- gent chiefs, gong alone fifty miles from garr4sons, and being everywnere hosp.tap-y reeeivou say the people make no secret or the sympathy with the insurrecion. Though admitting that the Filipino soldiers abuse, they still protect these soldiers from the American scouting parties They claim to have communication with Aguinaldo. Pa fNfA Afara i1a i= of civil and military officials of all ranks or Aguinaldos government, who were captur- ed or surrendered and who were brought here and released on promises to reifalh from agitation.
 Little Regard for Promiscs
 While many of the insurgeDt munlcipa! officers were continued in office on taking the oath of allegiance, residents who are acollainted with them have little iallh III their adherence to their promises. All tue civil officials of Tarlac, capital or the province of that name numoer eleven per sons. have been. arrested and charged With plotting. and two insurgents have been ca canta,rea at MalaIbon with discriminating papers and A,000 collected from the na- tives.
 Some of the municipal governments ap- pear loyal and efficient. On the other hand, one American general declares that ne pe- lieves the majority in his province arg agents of the insurrect1on.
 A fresh issue of insurgent pamphlets IS being circulated asserting that the Amerl- can promises of good government are mere ly a mask for commercial exploitation or the Philippines, quoting Senator BeVer- idge's speech and an editorial from a Washington newspaper headed Let Us Be Honest"
 The trial of the guerrilla charged with murder is finished, and 1t is believed the commissions verdict will be guilty. h. dictments against others have been pre- pared.
 Nothing Heard from Bates
 No report has been received from Gen eral Bates expedition.
 He has probably moved inland, where communication with him is impracticaole
 The army throughout the island Of Lu- zor is working hard securing the country for insurgents and killing few daily. The section from Manila to Dagupan has been thoroughly cleared, the scouting parties being unable to find any insurgents.
 General Funston and Colonel Kennan took two hundred men through the moun- tains to Baler, on the eastern c-,a.t. with out meeting an insurgent. But they are active along the northern coast from Dag upan to Aparrari. Occasional reports come of an American soldier being killed or S. appearing In the southern provinces the insurgents continue to harass the Amerl- can garrisons by night demonstrations.