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Show REBELLION NEARING END. Americans Now Have Coinp'ete Control of the Situation ! Manila, May 21. The Americans positively have entire control of the situation if the rainy season does not set in within ten clays, and make further fur-ther military operations impossible, should the insurgents still provo intractable. in-tractable. The purpose of the Filipino leaders to give up the struggle against American Ameri-can authority was made known by two delegates of the Filipino peace commission, com-mission, who remained in San Isidro when it was captured and surrendered to Lawtons advance guard. In conversation with American officers offi-cers they state that the Filipino forces have been for the last four days willing will-ing to secure peace on any terms that General Otis might see fit to offer. They declare. General Lawton, by his rapid and energetic advance from Baliuag, has not allowed their forces a moment's cessation from fighting. The delegates add, as their most Important Im-portant information, that Aguinaldo himself will sue for peace through the peace commission within two days. If he does not so act the Filipino government gov-ernment will repudiate him, as four-fifths four-fifths of the natives are weary of the war and desire the early ending of hostilities. |