Scranton Tribune Issue of April 18, 1901:
More Rebels are Yielding
The Insurrection on the Island of Marinduque is at an End.
SURRENDER OF COL. ABAD
The Noted Colonel Abad, Filipino Leader, and His Band Surrender
By Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press
Washington, April 17.- The war department today received the following cablegram from General MacArthur at Manila:
"Colonel Abad, insurgent leader Marinduqu (sic), nine officers, seventy soldiers, 248 small arms, surrendered. Major Frederick A. Smith, April 15, oathed with impressive ceremony, released. This ends insurrection there.
"(Signed) MacArthur."
On April 17, 1901, Col. Maximo Abad surrendered to Major Frederick A. Smith, inspector-general of the US Army, with 9 officers and 70 men. The oath of allegiance to the United States was administered with great ceremony on the plaza at Boac, capitol of Marinduque.
The rest of Abad's command soon followed suit. Captain Pedro Torres gave up in Torrijos on April 24, 1901 with 2 officers and 42 men, with 2 revolvers, 38 rifles and 360 rounds of ammunition. Lieutenant Alciano Pareno surrendered on April 26, 1901 at Santa Cruz, with 52 men and turned over 1 revolver, 32 rifles and 240 rounds of ammunition.
This terminated active hostilities in the island. One of only five battles that the Filipinos won in the Filipino-American war was the Battle of Pulang Lupa in present-day Barangay Bolo, Torrijos, a mountainous part of Marinduque overlooking Tayabas Bay, Mongpong Pass and Tablas Strait. On September 13, 1900. Colonel Abad and his men ambushed a detachment of 54 soldiers from Company F, 29th U.S. Volunteer Infantry, led by Captain Devereux Shields, killing 4 and forcing the rest to surrender. - FilipinoAmericanWar.com
