THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10013, 18 April 1898, Page 5

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

ANOTHER SERIOUS REVOLT.

THE REBELS OVERRUNNING THE PROVINCES. United Press Association— By Electric TelegraphCop* risht. Received April 16tb, 9.45 a.tn. Thursday Island, April IG. Eastern files show that the Philippines revolt has broken out in a worse form than ever. The China Mail saye that the Spanish authorities find it even more difficult to scotch this rising than the last. The preI sent leaders, it is feared, will neither show mercy nor practise consideration to property which characterised the former rising, nor is it expected that they will discriminate between Spaniards and other foreigners. When General Dastella bought over the rebels he congratulated himself upon ending the rebellion, but it was one thing to bribe thirty leaders and janother to encompass the complete pacification of the Philippines. The market price of rebels has gone up, and so long as there is a prospect of purchase so long will rebels be forthcoming. Since General Dastella's departure large bands of rebels have been overrunning the provinces, and wherever they have appeared ruin and rapine have been recorded. They have been animated by a desire to pillage and destroy, in order to induce the peaceable natives to throw over the present Spanish domination. The reports as to the engagements are conflicting, owing to the censorship over telegraph messages and the press and telegraph staffs.