The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-20
SITUATION IN PHILIPPINES
SUMMED UP BY CH4FFEE IN HIS
 ANNUAL REPORT.
Causes of tho Pro1ongation of Guerilla warfare-Tho Physical Nature of the Country, tho Treachery of the Insur- gents and the IT humanity Displayed by the American Troops Which is Taken Advantage OG

Manila, Jan. 19.-General Chaffee, il
 the annual report which has just beer issued, sums up the situation from the
 military point of view by saying that
 the provinces of Batangas and Laguna. l in southern Luzon, and the islands o1 I Samar, Mindoro and Cobu constitute the disturbed area in which bodies ot | insurgents in force are to be found. l General Chaffee says the prolongation I of guerilla warfare is due to the physi- 1 cal character of the country and to the nature of the warfare carried on by the | insurgents, who pose as friends and act as enemies in the same hour; to the hu-
 manity displayed by the American
 troops, of which the insurgents take
 advantage, and to the fear of assassi- nation on the part of those natives who are amicably disposed toward the Americans, should they give the latter information concerning the movements
 or whereabouts of the insurgents.
 Municipal and provincial governments
 are being organized. These govern ments have not yet received practical trial. They constitute the only certain and reliable method of ascertaining the progress of the Filipinos toward self government
 According to the opinion of army off, cers, the disaster to Company c of the Ninth infantry at Balangiga, Samar when forty eight men were killed, Is at- tributed to the too great confidence of these men in territory which they as- stunned to be pacifled
 In the same report Judge Groesbeck says the suppression Of brlgandage will probably be one of the most trying problems of the future, If the military arm be left free to deal with the mar auders there is no doubt of their final suppression, But the presence of the civil government complicates the situa- tion considerably. With the civil and military authorities working in harmo- ny. says Judge Groesbeck, no evil re- suits should be anticipated
 Manila Jan. 19--A report has been received here that a dug-ou canoe, in which eleven men of Company of the Second infantry were travellng, is miss ing and probably lost. It is believed the men either perished or were cap tured.
 General Wade has oabled from Cebu that 365 insurgents surrendered on the island of Bohoi last Friday. The au- thorities her say that if this statement is accurate it is astonishing as the se- oret service had failed to learn of the existence of any such body of insur- gents on Bohol.
 An important capture was made in Laguna province, Luzon, when eight men of the Eighth infantry captured a insurgent named Aquoda Kaha- bagan. She recently commanded an in- surgent force of 800 men, 300 of whom carried rifles, while five hundred were armed with bolos. For six years past 1 she has been leading insurgent bands | against the Spaniards and Americans. |
 General J. Franklin Bell is still &C., i've in Batangas province, Luzon. A 'ecent engagement in this province. in which the insurgents were defeated | with severe loss, resulted in the wound ng of one American officer and the SilIing of one private.
 Colonel Theodore J Wint, of the Sixth cavalry, who is operating in Ba- angas and Laguna provinces, reports numerous small engagements,