The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-11
VARIED FILIPINO TACTICS
SOME REBELS FIGHr ram. ON FRS
ARE WERE NIRDERERS.
The silent. Dcad,, ro'o- work If o." torIng
Order In Manila 20 fiitpinos crazy About the
Bicy Gle Damage Done b. the = pi~mber
Storm-kice Famine After Rebellion.

s%torm-kice Famine After Rebellion.
MANILA, Sept. 90 The irn fence Of the in
| slrgont leaders over their men j. strongly
marked In the various districts Evcrywhar"
there j. a little activity, lust as there = always
some motion in the ,almeSt son, tut the methods
Of ANNOYANCE and rttlc; di1rr widely In
| some parts Of the islands one seldom hears nf
! night skirmishes. and in Other> -" troop, can
beat about the country from sunrise to sunset
and never so much n rct sight If an insurrec'o,
but lust as soon as night comes cn the wh","
country seems alive with the c'enly.
Central Iu2on j. remarkable Tor it, pen and
ink scrappers az well as for it, Hg''iug men
There have been two or three coinIca. chaps
who have kept ny a running Gre Of witty notes
directed at our officers. without ~ the least
diminishing their speed in escaping when II
caine to a question of tight. TIE uot"s were
usually found stuck in the trunks II prominent
trees or on the church door. or perhaps slipped
into n forked stick Ilanted ~ ~" middl" OF II
road along which the troops were expected
TO march. As a rule they were correctly ad-
dressed TO the proper officers in command
The prisoners captured In central Tn2on
have Jared better than those who have fallen
into insurcent hands in other regions Tecson
and his three or four hundred men have cap
tured several Americans. including Capt.
fDDcrts ana Lieut., tIOSli"VeF' ana from lHH'
to time the rebel commander has contrived 10
keep the naighboring garrisons fairly well
! Informed on the condition ~ tho cap,iy"s on
more than one occasion Roberts was allowed
10 communicate with the garrison al san Isidro
and with his wife In Manila, Te"Son furnishing
n special messenger TO convey the letter. On
other occasions wounded men who were
| captured in battle were returned 70 the Ameri-
can line.. the Filipino officers saying they were
unable 10 give them proper medical attendance.
A striking example Of hurnane treatment
and fairness was given at Nayitac. lust a few
milcs from Manila. As orc % The Spanish pa
pers remarks, the enemy on aged was Of en- en-
t'rely different character from AIRY Of the f1lipi-
nos previously encountered. Either tho cN'ccS
in command are inclined toward humare var
fare or else there has been n great change in
the Filipino army. Whom tho Fifteenth In
fartrv fell into nm ambush here they were
! oblig I'd 20 retire. lon wig the following bodies
on the field Secord Lieut. q. A. Cooper. First
Scrct. William Fitzgerald. privntes Edward
{. Coburn. George + Horton, hnua j Kelley,
Thomas 7. Pitcher and Scott ], Smith; besides
there were those men ~ the Thirty-sevcnth
Infantry: First Scrrt. Thomas A. J.. Howe.
and Privntes Edward J. God'l md Joseph Y
Wells. About 2 p. NJ on Tuesday. the day
after the fight. all those bodies were brought
into SinIlonn bv natives supposed 20 be in
Insurgents md turned over 20 the commander
81 the garrison. The action Ia peculiar In
itself and not only were the bodies entirely free
from mutilation, hut all the valuables on .he
person. Of the deceased were left undisturbed.
SorSt. Howe alone had 500 gold In his belt
and not n cent was missing All the men had
various sums Of money in their pockets as well
as watches and odd pieces Of ievelry but none
OF II had been touched Such acts Of kindness
and humanity are deeply appreciated by the
troops and stand out in contrast to a list OF
insurGent butcheries.
A tale Of insurSent or guerrilla butohery
comes from Sorsogon. In southern Iuzon.
Some days ago two or three Signal Corps men
went out from headquarters 20 repair a break
in the line toward Bacon. One Of the party
separated from his companions and went ahead
while the Others were working. lie did not re-
turn ms soon as expected 80 the others went TO
look for. him. They had not gone more than
100 yards when they discovered his 'decsp-
itatcd body lying behind some bushes. The
hands and feet had been cut On and the rest
OF the body had been hacked. Every effort
was made TO locate the assassins but In vain,
They are believed to be members 81 a gang that
has been operating in that locality for some
time past. II may seem strange that IL could
be possible 10 kill this man within n hundred
yarus OF MS arh'eu coinpahions "'thout a'arH'-
ing them; but the bolo Is a quiet and deadly
weapon and far more enective than the RIM
at short range.
AGuinaldo's old capital. Malolos. was the
scene OF another murder today. 4 corporal
OF the Third Infantry In the provost guard
was assassinated and his body carried on, and
the guilty ones escaped. almost before the
deed was discovered. Troops were MINT
diately sent out TO scour the country and r"nnn
up the murderers. In very short order they
took into custody some hundred odd suspects
Including. according TO general report. a friar
OF Malolos and the Presidente OF Santa Isabel
In getting this bunch OF people together some
ten or twelve we're killed while attempting TO
escape. This killing occurred near Santa
Isabel. where Capt. Cook was marching along
with a detachment gathering up natives and
causing them TO give satisfactory accounts OF
themselves. When challenged, a number OF
natives ra1 and tbs men fred upon them, killing
twelve. according 70 a Manila paper.
II appears that in certain parts OF Malolos
the natives are so dirty that all Efforts Of tho
provost guard To make them clean up the flth