Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — INSURRECTION NOT DEAD. [ARTICLE]

INSURRECTION NOT DEAD.

Filipino* Plan Guerrilla Warfare on a Large Scale. That the trouble in tbe Philippines is far from ended seems to be the general opinion among leading army officials and prominent business men in the city of Manila. Reports from trustworthy sources show that there is great activity among the insurgents, who are planning to continue the insurrection with guerrilla warfare on a larger scale when the rainy season begins. Two correspondents of American weeklies who have traveled for a month in Benguet and Ilocos, with letters from insurgent chiefs, going alone fifty miles from garrisons and being everywhere hospitably received, say the people make no secret of their sympathy with the insurrection. Though admitting that the Filipino soldiers abuse them, they still protect these soldiers from the American scouting parties. While many of the insurgent municipal officers were continued in office on taking the oath of allegiance, residents who are acquainted with them hare little faith in their adherence to their promises. All the civil officials of Tarlac, capital of the province of that name, numbering eleven persons, have been arrested and •-harged with plotting, and two insurgent agents have been captured at Maiabon with incriminating papers and 34,000 collected from the natives. While some of the municipal governments appear loyal and efficient, one American general declares he believes that the majority iu bis province are agents of tbe insurrection.