The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-03-22
MANY TRAITORS
INFEST MANILA
City Is Veritable Hot Bed
of InsurreCtiOn.
OTIS HAS HIS TROUBLES
Filipinos Ia the Field Are Being Helped
By Those Who Profess Loyalty
To Uncle Sam.

Advices from the Philippines state
that General Otis considers Manila the
most Troublesome center in the situation
there, just now. The insurgeut junta
in connection with that in Hong Kong,
growing active. The military authori'
ties have been forced to put stop to
Mabini's intercourse with the public.
The local and foreign press considers
his recent utterances calculated to in
cite the Filipinos to continued revolt
and prejudicial to American control.
Flores, who has just arrived in Ma,
nilla says he comes trusting to Ameri'
can leniency, and that he would not
have dared come to Manila II
Spain were yet in control. He cher
ishes the hopes and aspirations which
actuated him when in the field and de-
sires to watch congressional action
upon the question OF the Philippines.
The insurgents. he says, do not expect
to vanquish the Americans, but are
maintaining resistance with the idea
of forcing congress to accord them the
best possible terms.
A number of representative insur'
gent leaders from different parts OF
Luzon have recently been in confer
ence ir Manila. Some have been
placed under arrest, but the others
thus far have not been interfered With.
Louis Spitzel, head of the firm OF
Louis Spitzel & Co., contractors to
the Chinese government, and himself
a suspected filibuster, came from
Hong Kong to Manila last week and
was temporarily detained in custody
on suspicion. It is asserted upon good
authority that three loads of arms and
ammunition have recently been landed
on the east coast of Luzon.
Reports are current of active rebel
reorganization in the province of Mo-
rong, where the insurgent leaders are
said to be assisted by prominent Span,
ish residents. Inhabitants OF this
province, who are now in Manila have
been advised not to return to thei1
homes, but to remain under the pro-
lection of the Americans.
It is also reported that the rebels
are reorganizing in the province OF
Zsmbales under Macardo. Briganda
are committing atrocities in the prov
ince of Neuva Eciga, where they have
murdered twenty natives and China
men. Eight other murders have been
committed near Tarlac. The Neuva
Eciga insurgents are heavily taxing
local traders and farmers with the re-
suit that business is paralyzed and
there is general scarcity of food.
The funds for maintaining this
guerilla warfare are collected from
the various towns of the island, wheth
or occupied by the Americans or not,
even including Manila.
In the province of Albay the insur-
gents have ceased harassing the Amer
icaus, owing. it is reported, to lack
of ammunition. but they continue raw
aging the country by burning and
looting. The natives are firing of this
sort OF thing and threaten to turn
against the marauders. Already the
townspeople of Legaspi, Albay and
Donzoi are slowly returning to their
homes.
Major Allen, Of the Forty-third regi'
ment, has baen appointed military
governor of the island of Samar, where
Lukban, the former lender OF the
rebels in that locality, is still in the
mountains.
Evidence acumulates of the treason
and peridy of the municipal presi'
dents in the provinces of General Mac
Arthur's district. The presidents oi
several towns in Lepanto and Unlor
provinces have declined to continue
in their positions, saying that they dc
not desire any further Identification
with the Americans. Travel between
the towns garrisoned by the Americans
is becoming more dangerous. AL
wagon trains must be escorted by
heavy guards to insure their safety.