Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04
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STILL Insurgents.
THEY HAVE BEEN CONQUERED IN
A MEASURE, BUT ARE NOT
PACIFIED.
THEY DISPLAY OPEN HOSTILITY
TO THE AMERICANS IN MANY
PARTS OF THE ARCHIPELAGO.
And Nowhere, Not Even in Manila,
Can Their Professions of Loyalty
to the New Order of Things be
Depended Upon-A Far Reaching
System of Opposition to American
Rule known to Exist.

MANILA, March 3.-9:55 p. m.-Re-
ports reach the Associated Press from
various sources including army officers
ond the heads of the commercial
houses with agents throughout the ISL
ands, of continued activity among the
insurgents who are endeavoring to
keep alive the armed opposition to the
United States and are planning to con-
tinue the instruction with guerrilla
warfare on a larger scale when the
rainy season begins. A person hold
ing a position second only to that Of
the governor general, tells the Asso-
ciated Press he is convinced that the
insurgent organization has been re-
markedly rehabilitated during the past
month, particularly in the northern
provinces. He says the insurgents
have secret organization patterned
after the Katipunan methods even in
the strongest garrisoned towns, afford
ing perfect means of communication
<tAA tlldt IhC machinery 1hoAAetoNN
from Manila, some of the leaders be-
ing Filipinos pretending to be sup
porters of the American administra-
ton, many of the municipal govern
ments installed by the army forming
part of the machinery. Two cores
pondents of leading American week
Ifnc M hou trox for IL,
Benguet and Ilocos with letters from
insurgent conferences, going alone fifty
miles from garrisons and being every
where Hospitality received, say the peo-
pie make no secret of their
Sympathy With the Insurrectfon.
Though admitting that the Filipino
soldiers abuse them, they still protect
these soldiers from the American
scouting parties. They claim to have
communication with Aguinaldo. Pa
terno. In the northern mountains of
Manila, is full of civil and military
officials of all ranks of Aguinaldo's
government, who were captured or sur
rendered, and who were brought here
and released on promises to refrain
from agitation.
While many of the insurgent munic-
ipal officers were continued in office
on taking the oath of allegiance, resi-
dents who are acquainted with them
have very little faith in the adherence
to their promises.
All the civil officials of Tarlac, capt.
toll of the province of that name, num-
bering eleven persons, have been ar
rested and charged with plotting and
two insurgents have been captured at
Malabon with discriminating papers
and 1900 collected from the natives.
Some of the municipal governments
appear loyal and efficient On the
other hand, an American general de-
clares he believes that the majority
in his province are agents of the in
surrection.
A fresh issue of insurgent pamphlets
is being circulated asserting that the
American promises of good rule are
only mask for commercial exploita-
ton of the Philippines. Quoting Sem
ator Beveridge's speech and an edi-
torial from Washington newspaper
headed, Let us be honest"
The Trial of the Guerillas
charged with murder is finished, and
1t is believed that the committees YER
dict will be guilty. Indictments
against others have been prepared.
No report has been received from
Gen. Bates's expedition. He has prob
ably moved inland, where communica-
ton with him is impracticable.
The army throughout the island of
LuZon is working hard, securing the
country for insurgents and killing a
few daily. The section from Manila
to Dagupan has been thoroughly clear
ed, the scouting parties being unable
to find any insurgents. Gen. Funston
and Col KEENAN, took 200 men through
the mountains to Baler on the eastern
coast, without meeting an insurgent.
1t is said they are active along the
northern coast from Dagupan to
APART. Occasional reports some of
an American soldier being killed or
disappearing. In the southern prov
inces the insurgents continue to harass
the American garrisons by night dem
onstrations.