Passaic City record., 1900-03-24
FILIPINOS AGAIN ACTIVE.
Insurgents Are Reorganizing and Ban
dts Are Committing Atrocities.
MANILA CENTRE OF TROUBLE.

sible For ProIoneing the Revolt-Na.
tive Leaders Conspire Under Authori.
ties Noses, and Some of Them Are
Arrested-Rebels Secure More Arms.
MANILA (By Cable).-General Otis con-
siders Manila the most troublesome centre
to-day. The insurgent Junta here, in con.
junction with that in Hong Kong, Is grow
ing active. The military authorities have
been forced to put a stop to Mabini's
intercourse with the public. The local
and foreign press considers his recent ut
terances calculated to inclte the Filipinos
to continued revolt.
Flores, who has just arrived here, says
he comes trusting to American lenfenoy
and that he would not have dared to come
to Manila II Spain were yet in control. He
cherishes the hopes and aspirations which
actuated him when In the field and desires
to watch Congressional action upon the
question Of the Philippines.
The Insurgents, he says, do not expect to
vanquish the Americans, but are maintain
ing resistance with the idea of forcing
Congress to accord to them the best pos.
sible terms. Representative insurgent lead.
ers from different parts Of Luzon have re.
Gently been in conference in Manila. Some
have been placed under arrest, but the
others thus far have not been interfered
with.
1t is asserted upon good authority that
three loads of arms and ammunition have
recently been landed on the east coast oil
Luzon. Captain Taylor, OF the Thirty
ninth Regiment, recently captured twelve
new Mausers near Calamba.
Reports are current here of active rebel
reorganization in the province of Morong,
where the insurgent leaders are said to be
assisted by prominent Spanish residents.
Inhabitants OF this province who are now
in Manila have been advised not to return
to their homes, but to remain under the
protection of the Americans.
1t is also reported that the rebels are re-
organizing in the province OF Zambales un-
der Mascardo. Brigands are committing
atrocities in the province Of Nueva Ecija,
whore they have murdered twenty natives
and Cinnamon. Eight other murders have
been committed near Tarlac.
The Nueva Ec1ja insurgents are heavily
taxing local traders and farmers, with the
result that business is para lyzed and there
Is general scarcity OF food.
The funds for maintaining this guerilla
warfare are collected from the various
towns OF the islands, whether occupied by
the Americans or not, even including
Manila.
In the province OF AlDay the Insurgents
have ceased harassng the Americans,
owing, 1t Is reported, to lack of ammuni-
ton. but they continue ravaging the coun-
tryside, 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
Donzol are slowly returning to their
homes.
Major Allen, of the Forty-third regime ent,
has been appointed Military Governor Of
the Island OF Samar, where Lukban, the
former leader of the rebels in that local
ity, Is still in the mountains.
Travel between the towns garrlsoned by
the Americans is becoming more danger
Gus. All wagon trains must be escorted by
heavy guards in order to insure their
safety. Two ambushes were narrowly
averted recently; small travelling parties
are attacked, and single travellers fre-
quently disappear or are found dead.
Spaniards and Filipinos who are CONVEX
SAINT with the Tagalog character unite IN
asserting that Aguinaldo's capture would
terminate the revolution. Three months
have passed since he was actively pursued.
An expedition to garrison the ports OF
Northern Mindanao has just sailed, accom-.
panied by the gunboats Manila and York.
town. The expedition took the Fortieth
Volunteer regiment from the Camarines.