Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
FiIipinos in Vizcaya in Revolt
Against Government.
TELEGRAPH WIRES ARE CUTf
Fugitive Ex-Governor OF 1locos
Leader Of the Revolt.
CoNSTABULARY IN THE FIELD
Battle Is Hourly Expected-Out'
laws to Be Surrounded by Men
Under Col. Taylor.

MANILA. September Am uprising
the province of Nueva yizcaya- con-
etabulary force Is hurrying to the
scene, and a battle Is expected hourly.
The rebel movement is headed by Sim
con Mandac, former governor OF tne
province of Ilocos Norte, who has long
been a fugitive from. justice.
Mandac occupies Solano. town OF
about 5000 inhabitants. northwest OF
the center OF Nueva yizcaya and about
I'VE miles north OF Bayonbong. The
telegraph wires north of Bayonbong
have been cut. and II is impossible TO
learn the number of Mandac's follow
ers.
Preparing for an Attack.
Col Taylor. at the head Of the con-
stabulary at Bayonbong. Is preparing Tor
an attack. and the constabulary forces
from other points are moving toward So
lano with the purpose OF surrounding the
outlaws and making certain their capture
or death Government reinforcements are
available If they should prove TO be
needed.
Word OF the trouble reached Manila to-
day Mandac. while governor. subjected
a prisoner TO third degree" examina-
tion OF such severity that the man died.
The governor was convicted Of homicide
and sentenced to fourteen years impris-
onment. He appealed from the verdict
OF the court. and while the appeal was
t,,r, hoA
missing for several months. 1t was
thought that he had escaped abroad un-
I'll today, when an official dispatch an
nounced that he had turned UP at the
head OF a band of malcontents.
Nueva Vizcaya is the central province
of Luzon. and Bayonbong Is its capital
War Department Surprised.
The reported disturbance in the prov
ince Of Nueva vizcaya comes as a sur
prise to the officials Of the bureau Of
insular affairs and the other offices Of
the War Department No intimation has
reached Washington OF any general dis
content In this wild. sparsely settled
province. and IL Is believed here that II
was q surprise likewise to the oficiais
IN the Philippines.
Difhculty will be encountered by the
constabulary in wiping out the Mandac
band. according to the views OF officials
large Nevertheless, II is expected here
that the handicaps of the mountainous
country will be overcome shortly and with
little. IL any, loss Of life.
The fact that Mandac has taken his
stand In Solano, in the province OF Nueva
Niscaya, one or two hundred miles across
the mountains from his home In the
province Of Ilocos Norte, leads officials
here to believe that his followers are few.
Twice In the short period of his term
official reports come to Washington Of
trouble In which Gov. Mandae figured.
Found Guilty Of Murder.
One report was that the governor. who
was elected to office by a small majority
last January. had been found guilty by q
lower court OF homicide and senterced to
imprisonment for fourteen years In Bill
bid. The trial took place. according TO
the report, at Laoag.
The case arose. II was said. from an
attack upon two prisoners under confine-
ment at Laoag. the capital OF the pro-
vince OF Ilocos Norte. 1t was stated that
the governor was accused of killing ore
OF them with kick in the abdomen
few weeks later a report reached
Manila. and later Washington. that
Gov. Mandac had been found guilty re-
Gently of the illegal detention Of sew
eral persons in Jail I'm his province.
They were held over night. Later de-
velopments exonerated them. and the
governor was subsequently charged
with OBTAINING them illegally. He was
reported to have pleaded guilty and to
have been fined $500 Justice Trent of
the supreme court OF the Philippines
granted an Injunction to restrain the
trial court from executing the sentence
upon.
Oficiais are unable to reconcile the
two reports. but today's press dis
patches are taken as evidence that
Mandac has been ousted from the gov