| Show I FLIGHT OF THE REBELS I I Retire In Haste as American Troops Approach Imus Manila June 15Captain Cable of I General Wheatons staff with three companies of the Twent frt regiment regi-ment reconnoitered in the direction of I Imus The rebels who were apparently I apparent-ly expecting an attack retired leaving behind them twent twenty Spanish prisoners who joined the Americans The rebels have probably gone to the mountains along the lake According to native stories the rebels carried 100 dead and 300 wounded through Bacoor after the recent battle The natives are now flooding into Ba coor and I Is probable there are many soldiers in plain clothes among them The whole section is practically without with-out food and Major General Otis has ordered the distribution of rice and beef to the inhabitants Many people still refuse to credit the stories of the assassination of General Luna by the guard at Aguinaldos headquarters Though the reports to I that effect are most circumstantial and from good sources and rumors of assassinations as-sassinations and disasters from the rebel camp are so frequently printed In the local papers they have come to be regarded with Indifference The latest is that the governor of Cebu has J been killed by natives because of his j I friendship to Americans A prominenj commercial man with exceptional means of learning of the Filipinos movements claims to know General Luna is still alive adding that if he Is dend and if i his death occurred a month ago people would have expected a collapse of the revolution to follow The failure of the Filipinos to follow I up the peace negotiations strengthens the impression that their overtures I were merely to gain time and then lure the American to show their hands The Independencia a revolutionary organ of May 20 a copy of which has just been obtained prints an interview with General Luna showing tho argu ments he use to keep up the spirits of his followers He represents tho Filipino cause as prospering because the Americans have gained only a hundredth hun-dredth part of Luzon by hard fighting and says the women and children tilling till-ing the fields within the American lines give the proceeds of their work in support sup-port of the Filipino army He is said to have further remarked More Americans will bekilled by ambuscades surprises and disease than in battles I detest war but we cannot can-not accept peace at ny price but independence in-dependence The Americans suffered for their own independence and in their own hearts they appreciate why I we resist them |
