The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-20
ELEVEN men MISSING
AMERICAN SOLDIERS EITHER CAP
TURED OR DROWNED.
Surrender of FiIipinos i'm BohoI-Im-
portant Capture of Amazon
in Laguna.

MANILA, Jan. ia report has been re-
ceived here that dugout canoe, in which
eleven men of Company 1 of the Second
Infantry, were travelling, is missing and
probably is lost 1t is believed the men
either perished or were captured.
General Wade has cabled from Cebu
that S65 insurgents surrendered on the
Island Of Bohol last Friday. The authori-
ties here say that this statement is as
tonshing if accurate. as the secret service
had failed to learn of the existence of any
such body of insurgents on Bohol.
An important capture was made in La
guna province. Luzou, when eight men of
the Eighth Infantry captured a woman
insurgent named Aqueda Kahabagan. She
recently commanded an insurgent force Of
500 men, 300 of whom carried rifles, while
500 were armed with bolos. For six years
past she has been leading insurgent bands
against the Spaniards and the Americans
General j. Franklin Bell is still active
in Batangas province. Luzon. A recent
engagement in this province, in which the
insurgents were defeated with severe loss.
resulted in the wounding of one American
officer ard the killing of one private
Colonel Theodore j. Wint, of the Sixth
Cavalry. who is operating in Batangas
and Laguna provinces, reports numerous
small engagements.
General Chaffee, in the annual report
which has just been issued, sums up the
situation from the military point of view
by saying that the provinces of Batangas
and Laguna, in southern Luzon and the
islands of Samar, Mindoro and Cebu cOnsti-
tute the disturbed area, in which bodies
of insurgents in force are to be found.
General Chaffee says the prolongation Of
guerrilla warfare is due to the physical
character of the country and to the ma
ture of the warfare carried on by the in
surgents, who in the same hour pose as
friends and act as enemies; to the humanity
the insurgents take advantage, and to the
fear of assassination on the part Of those
natives who are friendly 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 governments
have not vet received a practical trial
They constitute the only certain and reli-
able method OF ascertaining the progress
of the Filipinos to ward sef-government
According to the opinion of army Of
ficers. the disaster to Company c. OF the
Ninth Infantry, at Balangiga, Samar. when
forty-eight men were killed, is attributed
10 the too great confidence of these men
in territory which they assumed 10 be
pacifed.
In the same report Judge Advocate Groes-
beck says the suppression Of brigandage
will probably be one Of the most trying
problems of the future If the military arm
be left free TO deal with the maurauders
there is no doubt of their final suppression.
But the presence Of the civil government
complicates the situation considerably
With the civil and military authorities
working in harmony, says Judge Groesbeck,
no evil results should be be anticipated.