Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-03-09
NOT YET WHIPPED
Filipino Insurgents Determined
to Garry On the Struggle.
AMERICAN OFFICIALS ARE SUSPICIOUS
Many Supposedly Loyal Natives Sympa-
thize With Rebels and Prove
to Be Traitors.

Reports reach the Associated Press
from various sources, including army
officers and the heads Of commercial
houses with agents throughout the is.
lands, Of continued activity among the
insurgents who are endeavoring to
keep alive the armed opposition to the
United States and are planning to con-
tlnue the instruction with guerrilla
warfare on larger scale when the
rainy season begins.
A person holding q position second
only to that of the governor general
tells the Associated Press he is con-
WINGED that the insurgent organization
has been remarkably rehabilitated dur
ing the past month, particularly in
the northern provinces. He says the
insurgents have q secret organization
patterned after the KatiEunan meth
DDS, even in the strongest garrisoned
towns, affOrding perfect means of COM
munication, and that the machinery is
managed from Manila, some of the
leaders being Filipinos pretending to
be supporters of the American admin
istration, and many of the municipal
governments installed by the army
forming part of the machinery.
Two correspondents of leading
Aperican weeklies who have travelled
for month in Benguel and Ilocos
with letters to insurgent chiefs, going
alone fifty miles from garrisOns and
being everywhere Hospitality received,
say the people make no secret of their
sympathy with the insurrectiOn. AL
though admitting that the Filipino sol
diers abuse them, they still protect
these soldiers from the American scout
ing parties. They claim to have com
munication with aguinaldo. Palermo,
in the northern mountains of Manila,
is full of civil and military officials of
all ranks of AguinaldO's government
who were captured or surrendered and
who were brought here and released
on promises to refrain from agitation.
While many of the insurgent muni-
cival officers were continued in office
on taking the oath of allegiance, resi-
dents who are acquainted with them
have little faith in their adherence to
their promises. All the civil officials
OF Tarlac, capital of the province OF
that rame, numbering eleven persons
have been arrested and charged with
plotting, and two insurgents have been
captured at MalabOn with incriminat-
ing papers and $4,000 collected from
the natives.
Some of the municipal governments
appear loyal and efficient. On the
other hand, one American general de-
clares that he believes the majority in
his province are agents of the insur-
rectiOn.
A fresh issue of insurgent pamphlets
is being circulated, asserting that the
American promises of good govern
ment are merely n mask for conner
cial exploitation Of tho Philippines,
quoting Senator Beveriige's speech
and m editorial From Il Washington
newspaper headed Let Is ., Hon
est"
The trial of tho guerrilla charged
with murder is finished aud it : be-
lieved the rUL1lllssIuu e. verdict will lie
guilty. Indictments against others
have been prepared
No report has been received from
General Ba:es's expedition. He has
probably mcTed inland, where com
municatlop With HIM is IMpraciicGble
The army throughout the island Of
Luzon is working, securing the coun-
try for insurgents and killing a few
daily. The SETON from Manila To
Dagupan has beer thoroughly cleared,
the scouting ?a"tie, being unable to
find any insurgents. General En-
stOn and Cclcpci Roman took geo
men through the n.rrutairs to Baler,
on the eastern coast. without meeting
an insurgent. But they are active
along the northern coast from Dagu-
pan to APART. Occasional reports
come Of an American sc'iier being
killed or disappearing. N the south
ern provinces the insurgents continue
TO harrass the American garrisons b.
night demonstrations.