ANOTHER DIFFICULTY FOR SPAIN.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3410, 18 April 1898, Page 3

ANOTHER DIFFICULTY FOR SPAIN.

THE REBELLION IN THE PHILIPPINES. ' MORE SERIOUS"THAN EVER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. — Copyright., Thursday Island, April 16, Eastern files show that the Philippine Islands revolt has broken out in a worse form than ever. The China Mail says that the Spanish authorities will find it even more difficult to scotch this rising than the last. The present leaders, it is feared, will neither show mercy nor practise the 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 (says the same authority) he congratulated himself upon the ending of the rebellion, but it was one thing to bribe 30 leaders and another to encompass the complete pacification of the Philippines. The market price of rebels has gone up, and so long ns 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 ovor the present Spanish domination. The reports as to engagements are conflicting, owing to the censorship over the telegraph messages and the press and telegraph staffs.