Show AMERICANS CAPTURE MOST ST FEROCIOUS REBEL REBEL- LEADER IN r THE TUE PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINES' Arrest of General Lukban Regarded as Most Important important tant Military Event Since Aguinaldo Was Run Down WASHINGTON Feb 26 Gen Chaffee Chalice today notified the War department that of the Philippine scouts captured Gen Gem Lukban on February 2 nd The prisoner Is I's is now confined at Laguan Another capture is recorded in the same dispatch namely that of William Dunston said to be a deserter from company C Eighth infantry who vho had In his p possession a lot of f arms and ammunition and all of the tools necessary for forthe forthe the making of ammunition He was captured by Second Pratt First infanti infantry y at on the island of Samar The Lieutenant also destroyed the arsenal and factory and killed eleven soldiers besides capturing all of Dunston's correspondence correspondence- The officials of the War Var department regard the capture of Lukban as the most Important military military- event since g Aguinaldo's capture He was run run down on the island of Samar The place of his confinement is a tiny island In a bay bayon on th U the north coast of Samar Lul Lukban ban is one of the most energetic and ferocious of rebels He is a halfbreed halfbreed half- half breed a a mixture of Chinese and Filipino stock and he has been an irreconcilable ble from the first He had various fastnesses fastnesses in the mountains of Samar from which he would descend upon the coast towns and his reign of terror was so complete complete- that the entire population of the Island paid tribute to him as the pi price ice of freedom from attack attack- Ordinary campaign methods failed tailed in his case and his capture now Is be believed believed be- be to be the natural working out of the system of dividing the island into small squares by military garrisons and making it impossible for the insurgents insurgents insurgents gents to obtain obtain- food or shelter r |