IN THE PHILIPPINES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 145, 15 May 1900, Page 3

IN THE PHILIPPINES.

A recent Manila cable to the New Yerk Herald states :—": — " The war in the Philippines is over,. No further surrender can "be hoped for. 'The* clanger in the situation is that a blood feud ,may arise between the American army and the Philipinos., This danger can be greatly lessened by action of the Congress, which is now imperative, outlining the policy of the Government in the Philippines, it isiikely'that manyinsurgents are still holding for the very terms which Congress will be willing to give. The time is ripe; for a conciliatory policy, allowing the Philipinos to have some say as to the nature of the governmentunder which they will be obliged to live." Quite a different account, however, is given by an officer of the steamer Garonne, who arrived at San Francisco from the Philippine Islands on January 26. He stated that the Americans are still a long way from putting down the rebellion. All they bold, he said, was Manila and the railway, which, however, thoy lose every - night and retake in tha morning. A few days before hs left Manila on the steamer Olympia, the insurgents attacked a number of ' Americans within three miles of the city, and killed a number of them. The news was promptly suppressed by the censor.