Manila, 1st December.
The war in the Philippines has come to the point where even the most conservative declare that organised resistance on a Inrge scale is now impossible. The spendidiy organised Insurgent Government is scat tered to the four winds. More than half the principal leaders of Congress and the strongest men in the civil machine have come into the American lines or have been picked up by the troops in the numerous towns that have been occupied d Inst month. As a rule they taken prisoners, but rather usually when the request transportation has been Baptista, the last President Dr. Leonsong, the chief surgeon of the army, the director of railways, Luna's brother with his family and mother, Major Ortiz, Senor Barretto, the Attorney-General, and an odd lot of Congressmen and military officials have, temporarily at least, renounced the Insurgent cause.
The operations of the last month havi been so rapid and effective that Aguinaldn's army has been hounded from place te place by Lawton on the east, McArthur on the west, and Wheaton and Youms on the north, until the provinces have becrime thoroughly terra THE FLIGHT AND EsvarE, For twelve Jong days and nights Aguinaldo and his small party were chased from pillar to post, fighting against heavy odds, against an overwhelmingly superior force both in pumpers and equipment, and against the semi-hostile native population it to say nothing of the notorious Jade: the Guardia de Hono who hung like vultures on his flanks wait= ing for an opportunity to rol or kill or inform on the fleeing General, in order to got a part of the treasure which was reported "with him. At Asingan his little kiri died from exposure and his wife was taken sick. A day Inter he consigned his three-year-old son to the care of a faithful nurse, and made a last dash for liberty. He escaped through the very fingers of the Americans and is now anywhere from Abra in the north to Cavite in the south, or perhaps in Panay Island. Who knows?
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