| Show I FILIPINOS BUnN TOWNS Rebels Rebell Ule tue Burring s and Do Great Damage Sol Soldier dier with vIti Id lilar Feb lAte the genie In Mb r province Luzon have bae adopted tactics against the towns which the ns have gum gar Th They camp In the hills and maintain a constant nt fire upon the American outposts the tho troops NIb them they scatter re returning turning when the Americans retire They shoot burning and have thus thul burned a large part or of the town of Alba Albay Indeed mot most of the larger towns In that province are practically deserted except by the garrisons any or of the tho inhabitants return to their borneo They are camping In inthe the interior anI It is II supposed seined 1 In insurgents ur prevent them going back It Is III that there Is much sufferIng amon among them owing to 10 lock of food As A result of 01 these conditions tb the hemp In that section ii 18 Ferl son f and going for tor cargoes are arc com compelled to take tak gangs of to do 10 their loading Hemp held In the interior Is quite inaccessible Cal Col lIeu will take tak tl two regiments and anda a battery through the provinces ot of North anti and South Cow S h going there thero on transports Many In Insurgents retreated to 10 that part of the Island from flOm Cavite and provinces Another up expedition mil wili soon lOOn start to 10 towns alon the north coast of the Island of MIndanao warfare south ot of T Two attempts attempt have been made mado to ambush the Col Schwan while returning to Manila with his hla staff and 1111 an escort of 01 too cavalry from Ita tangia Will was attacked by the Insurgents The I latter were dispersed but bUL the Ibe had bad live with 81 six compan tee lei of the Infantry had a 0 two tTO houra tight 1111 Gen Oen Plo del command which to ambush th the Americans along the trail through province near the lake Ih Here also Ih the Insurgents were dill dIS but the AmerIcans had ball several wounded among thorn a captain Gell hell I is operating southward through provInce with n a small force torce Another expedition Is pio 10 c northward from Irom It is II reported that the insurgent Gen tJUI Alejandro has hIlS recovered from his wound and lies has Is assembled n a lutgo force lorce in III hat district The plague continues Right BIght cafes Ie reported last week among the no na Ues and C Chinese There is II no excite excitement ment how er antI business s and anci social IU are undIsturbed Smallpox Is prevalent among the no aft along the railroad and In the towns lons on the tho nt northern coast cout Two om oh C cern 9 of 01 the infantry have died ot of this disease and ani another officer and several soldiers have hae been boen stricken Washington Feb Frank M Welt chaplain chaplan of 01 the First regiment of 01 volunteer r who wha h has just returned from the Philippine l spoke In Oar field memorial I today under the auspices of the we WC T U on th the liquor Question In the Iho PhilippIne PhilippI Islands U lie deviated declared that since the Americans nerl ns I took ok danIla 00 place liquor Is had naO sprung up In Manila before the Americana came to 10 he islands lalands Manila lied had only three saloons Th The he hi nl a well o of Ih sol aol diers that they said the Amen merl cans Were bad people uthen they had drunk too much hu he MIld Bald was sold In the barracks at Iloilo not over fifteen feet from Irom lila hIs lell ten untIl lie he put an end nd to it II b by corn com to ta the colonI and provost mar thai The Indiana on whIch he returned to the United States he char as al a whisky transport and he acid that lie ht hail unsuccessfully at tempted 1 to het have 0 the tale Sale ot Of liquor on the transports stopped slopped while In the Philippines |
