The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-03-23
jUNTA IS ACTIVE
Manila Branch of Filipino Or
ganization Busily Engaged
In Making Plans.
That City the Most Trouble
some Center of the Situa-
ton at Present.
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NEW MAUSERS CAPTURED
Very Evident Arms and AM
munition Have Recently
Been Imported.
Signs Of Increased Activity by
Insurgents Apparent at
Several Points.

MANILA, March 19-General Otis con-
siders Manila the most troublesome
center in the situation today. The in
surgent junta here, in conjunction with
that in Hong Kong, is growing active.
Military authorities have been forced to
put stop to Mahini's intercourse with
the public. Flores, who has just ar
rived here, says he comes trusting to
American leniency and that he would
not have dared come to Manila if 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 insur-
gents, he says, do not expect to vanquish
the Americans, but are maintaining a
resistance with the idea of forcing con-
gross to accord them the best possible
terms.
A number of representative insurgent
leaders from different parts of Luzon
have recently been in conference in
Manila. Some have been placed under
arrest but the others thus far have not
been interfered with.
Continue to Land Arms.
Louis Spitzel, head of the firm of
Louis Spitzel & Co., contractors to the
Chinese government, and himself a sus-
pected filibuster, came from Hong Kong
to Manila last week and was tenn
porarily detained in custody on suspi-
oio,, t. &c occarta1 r,yoy c,oo1 orfho,.-
ity that three loads of arms and ammu-
milton have recently been landed on the
east coast of Luzon. Captain Taylor of
the Thirty-ninth regiment recently cap
tured 10 new Mausers near Calamba.
Reports are current here of active
rebel reorganization in the province of
Morong, where the insurgent leaders
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 protec-
ton of the Americans.
It is also reported that the rebels are
recognizing in the province of Zam-
bales, under Mascardo. The Nueva
Eciga insurgents are heavily taxing
local traders and farmers, with the re-
suit that business is paralyzed and there
is general scarcity of food.
Rebels Collect Funds in Manila.
The funds for maintaining this guer-
rilla warfare are collected from the
various towns of the island, whether
occupied by the Americans or not, in
Guiding Manila. In the province of
Albay the insurgents have ceased har-
RAISING the Americans, owing, it is re-
ported, to a lack of ammunition, but
they continue ravaging the country by
burning or looting. The natives are
firing of this sort of thing and threaten
to turn against the marauders. Already
the townspeople of Legaspi, Albay and
Dobsol are slowly returning to their
homes.
Evidence accumulates of the treason
and perfdy of the municipality officials
in General MacArthur's district. Off
Gals of several towns of Lepan and
Lupto provinces have declined to con-
tinue in office, saying that they do not
desire any further connection with the
Americans. Travel between the towns
is becoming more dangerous All wagon
trains must be escorted by heavy guard
in order to insure their safety.
Spaniards and Filipinos, who are con-
versant with the Tagalo character, unite
in asserting that Aguinaldo's capture
would terminate the revolution. Three
months have passed since he was actively
purSued