Notwithstanding official reports to the contrary the insurrection is spreading and when Imus, the present stronghold of the should the Spaniards meet with a reverse insurgents, is attacked, a general rising may be looked for. The Spaniards them: selves estimate fully 100,000 insurgents under arms in the provinces of Batangas and Cay The Spaniards claim a victory over them at a place called Nasagbu, in Batangas, the estate of the celebrated P. P. Roxas, stating that 124 rebels were killed.and only two Spaniards, but this must be taken with a good deal of reserve. At the present moment a victory was necessary for political reasons and Nasagbu being unfortified and, moreover, on the coast and within reach of the gunboats, it was singled out for attack. Bren if the victory is as said, it in no way alters the position of matters, but probably if one figure were taken off the rebel loss and ded to the Spanish loss it would be nearer the exact truth..
A HOPEFUL stay for the pacification of the islands is the departure for Spain of the Segundo Caba or Lieutenant-Governor, who leaves in the Antonio Lopes, sailing on the 2ist inst., officially announced in the Papers as on sick leave, but in reality sent under arrest by the Captain-General, who in this action has shown another excellent political move, in the face of tremendous opposition and extreme unpopularity with a certain section ut the community. This Segundo Caba belongs out themselves) when the next lot of troops arrive from Spain. Although there are some very respectable inhabitants in this corps, by far the greater part of them are composed of loafers and itinerant Spaniards whose only object for enlisting was loot, and so far they have made hay while the sun shines, entering defenceless homes at night, violating women and children, arresting and even shooting the husbands on futile pretences, and laying their hands on everything they could get hold of. I know of one case where they jheartlessly set fire to a house where two helpless old women were, burning them to death, in the suburb of Sampaloc.
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