New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-11
CUBAN TACTICS IN THE PHILIPPINES
POLICY OF THE INsURGENT MACHINE IN
THE ISLANDS

Manila, May Eff were fighting an army
the work would be comparatively easy" said Gen
eral Macarthur in speaking Of the situation which
confronted him when he assumed the Office OF
Governor-General- The report had come from
General Young that Tin:o and Agui1aldo
gathering e force in the Benguet Mountains where
they had been hunted and scattered five months
before. The military were hoping that Tinio would
form another army. because a army can be To-
Gated and followed and, Il will try make
stand can be defeated; bur such good fortune IS
improbable. FoI one reason. the Americans are
SO disposed. covering most Of the important roads
and passes that il would be impossible fer
than few hundred Fi:p!nos 70 ATTEMPT 10
sernble without many of them being discovered:
and General Macarthur added, foE another reason,
that the Fi,.pinos have learned thar Trey han
dicap The Americans progress more effectively by
irregular operations
AN UNDERGROUND GOVERNMENT
General Macarthur has 70 fight secret
ga-izaJion which amounts almost 10 government.
which exercises power 10 some extent and enforces
its DEGREES over all Of Luzon and most Of the
other islands which collects taxes here IL Manila
and even gives receipts for duties paid on the
cargoes OF native boats passing up the rivers IN
the suourbs. The control ot this underground or
gauizat!ou Is reputed 70 be IL the hands o. Z
1unta whose headquarters are in Manila put 50
great IS the loyalty fear which Il commands
that the authorities have been unable 10 trace lis
roots and the question whether II is Identical with
,os famous kat!punan Society is open one.
Many OF the elections Of municipal governments
held b the American officers are controlled by the
revolutionary organization, which selects the can
556s-es and some OF these governments are IN
,,,.s,io-sb Iy Efficient parts OF its machinery.
probably the men who are directing the guerilla
activity in the know no superior except the
general vino has authority in their province. al
though they may believe that Aguinaloo Is sun
the supreme heao IN 17E'' az -'e - ~ ut minus
ot ths popuace-
THE policy Of the insurgent machine IS to repeat
me Cuban revolution IN the Philippines 10 dis
courage conquest BY so devastating the Islands and
.Aeping them IN such state OF war that they VIII
he useless 10 the conquerors Nowhere outside Of
the garrisoned towns can Americans CO. except in
large armed ps'veS'i T5 zen niles norm be ex
centad The provinces directly south OF Manila and
~ island and there schools and local govern
r1ents in operation, ana Tnuch naoh-E Is 1e,ng
Z .xDended in building roads and other improve
nents The municipal governments prove useful
c1Ts and the towns are cleaner and better admin
fstered than many American villages, put' gen
sye aa6 thar ency WITHOUT The psierna yg
lance OF the American soldiers would De dototiu
OUTSIDE THE TAGALo PROVINCES.
The theory that the Filipnos outside Of the
Tagalo provinces friendly 70 American rule
has been deeply shaken by recent events. All Of
The northeastern coast beyond Dagupan is In
state Ct war and there frequent fights with
heavy losses the Ilipinos. All of the southern
provinces. inhabited by the Visayans. also tur
bulent, and in the Camarines. Eueva Caceres and
Albay provinces the Americans control only the
territory within the picket lines OF the garrsons IN
the coast towns. while these garrtsons subject
70 frequent attacks from large insurgent forces.
With the exception OF Negros. which, being the
wealthiest island OF the Philippines is the most
friendly 10 American rule, the Visayan Islands
show similar conditions. There are guerilla bands
/ in Negros which preventing the sugar planters
from putting in their crops by threats OF burning
( the buildings but American authority controls
throughout The island; and the planters are organ
izng against the bandits. Panay is oyerrun by the
insurgents outside OF the American sarrisons. They
have fifteen hundred thousand rides: they
levy a OF 80 per cent all the crops planted.
which keeps the great majority OF the inhabitants
from putting in more than enough rice 10 keep
them alive. and the insurgent paynasters go
from IloiIo with money collected for their
American officers from Cebu report that condi-
tons there show change from year ago;
that. outside OF the dozen towns held by American
troops the insurgent forces control the country.
while the troops IN the garr!sonec towns under