The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-23
GENERAL CHAFFEE HOPEFUL
TAKES ENCO OURAGING YJEWOF I'll F
 PHILIPPINE SITUATION.
Believes That the End of February Will Find All the Turbulent Provinces Pactfied With the Exception of Samar Few More Months Will be Required to Quiet This Province.

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 Manila, Dec. 22-General Chaffee, speaking with the correspondent here of the Associated Press on the situa- ton in the islands, said he considered conditions in the Philippines to be hope ful, and that by the end of February all the turbulent provinces will have been pacifed General Chaffee eXcepts the island of Samar, however, which will probably require some months more. There the situation demands a policy of rigid starvation and the giving of food only to those who surrender or who stay in the towns.
 The closing of the ports in LasuEa and Batangas provinces, in Luzon, has had a most salutary effect, as the meas ure has resulted in touching the pockets of the Manila Filipinos who have been aiding the insurgents The former are now anxious for peace and are working to that end. In order to hasten matters these Filipinos will cooperate with the forces under General Bell in Batangas and Laguna.
 Every effort to decrease the expenses of the American army in the Philippine Islands is having little effect, owing to the increase of army stations, due part ly to the activity of the insurgents on the island of Samar, in Batangas and Tayabas provinces and in other places, and also to the establishment of munich pal governments in many towns. which has necessitated the sending of troops there to preserve order
 Captain John $. Parks, jr., with thir- ty men of the Twenty-first infantry, en- sixty insurgents ast week at Alaminos, in Laguna province. Four of the enemy were killed, several guns were captured and their barracks were destroyed
 General Bell. who is in command of the American forces in Batangas prov ince, Luzon, has praised Lieutenant James D. Tilford who while scouting with Troop D. of the First cavalry, routed an insursent force in that prov nce Lieutenant Tilford located a reb al stronghold on top of a hll near the town of Batangas. He surrounded the enemy under cover of night and attack ad them at daylight Their surprise vas complete. Nineteen insurgents were killed while attempting to escape. Tilford captured sixteen files and five hundred pounds of ann 
 A detachment of scouts of the Second Infantry also had a small engagement with the insurgents, in which they kill I'd nine men and captured four.
 Lieutenant John D. Hartman, of the First cavalry. during an expedition which lasted several days, encountered he enemy six separate times without osing one of his men. He destroyed several barracks.
 Two priests have been arrested in 3atangas province, They are charged { with aiding the insurrection. They were found to have hidden behind the -ltar of their church appliances for 1. money. They are charg 1 d with manufacturing Mexican silver | ollars to pay the insurgent soldiers,
 Inspector General Breckinridge has | eturned to Manila from a tour of the [ provinces.
 General George W. Davis, command | ng at Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, | as requested that the province of Mis- mis. Mindanao, again be placed under control. General Davis has roof that the recently elected presi- | ente and vice councillors and the lead ,g men of Cagayan de Misamis are uilty of treason in furnishing ammu- ition to the insurgents within the past 1onth. The Fiscal of the province of lisamis is also implicated. The evil ence shows that all these men were lembers of the secret Katipuan soci ty. General James F. Wade, com landing the American forces on Cebu Hand, concurs and endorses the re- uest of General Davis and, reviewing le situa ton in Mindanao, says he is atisfied that the ends of justice. peace nd good government will soon be ob- tined by the restoration of military ,ntrol to the province of Misams and le overcoming of all resistance to that lthority. It is expected that the Unit States Philippine commission will re- lse this request, as they did a similar oplication made by General Chaffee the province of Tayabas, uzon, where the rebels have recently zen particularly active.
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