Show OUEUIIILLA WAR IS ON Small Bands of Americans Run Down Daily in Isles STRANGE STATE OF AFFAIRS While Improvement is Visible in Every Quarter and Civil Governments Govern-ments are Being Established in Every Town of Importance the Insurgents In-surgents aro Unusually Active They Have Captured a Number of Rifles and1 Quantities of Ammunition Ammuni-tion from Uncle Sam San Francisco March 2Tlic steamer steam-er Hongkong Maru brings from Hongkong news of a surprising state of affaIrs existing in the Philippines The correspondent of a Hongkong paper pa-per sends the fallowing1 uncensored letter let-ter to his Journal Manila Feb 13 It Is a strange stale of affairs that exists In the Philippines today Improvement Is visible in nearly near-ly every quarter Civil governments are rapidly being established in every 1 town of Importance and garrHons and i patrols are In process of extension wherever Americans hold territory and yet It is an undeniable fact that sInce January 1st Jhc insurgent forces have captured a number of rllles and quantities quan-tities of ammunition from the Americans Ameri-cans almost equaling the sum total of i American captures from the Insurgents J I BesIdes IhlSf lie casualty rate for the last two weeks will come very close to being heavier than at any other period of ihe Insurrection with the exception ex-ception of iho time of the outbreak and the fortnight beginning with March 26 1890 These are hard facts to swallow and somewhat alarming into the bar j galaTime j The threatened guerrilla I warfare that was heard on every side seems to ba a stern reality and partIes of fifty or smaller numbers are ambushed and Jumped day after day Supply trains final escorts and scouting parties are the special objects of attack and the country seems to be full of small roving rov-ing bands waiting at every convenient cover until the picy Is caught In one or two Instances heavy patrols pa-trols or strong scouting parties hate quickly avenged these raids by selling out immediately and hunting down and killing as many of the marauders as possible These lessons have not been forgotten and In time Immediate ills Iricls there have been no repclllions of tho trouble The authorities I are giving the question considerable attention and every effort will be made to Insure the public safety for on this depends the future of the country Englands policy in India Is frequently discussed find her swift and severe punishments arc looked upon as model peacemakers The arms vtrc probably captured from commissary trains |