Two Armies Surrender

The war department to-day received the following cablegram: "Manila, April 11.—Adjutant General, Washington: * * * Colonel Acres surrendered at Castilejos, yesterday, 335 soldiers, 12 officers and arms. This and the surrender of Colonel Alva at Poringo, April 8, with officers, 394 men and 93 rifles, frees Bataan, Zambajes, province. —MacARTHUR."

DELGADO IS GOVERNOR.

Ex-Rebel Chief Now Civil Governor of Iloilo.

Iloilo, Island of Panay, April 11.—General Martin Delgado, the chief insurgent commander in the island of Panay until his surrender in January, has been appointed governor of the province of Iloilo, created by the United States Philippine commission to-day. Judge Taft's announcement of the appointment was greeted with shouts of enthusiasm from the delegates and spectators. General Delgado was recommended by General Hughes, his subordinate officer, and the natives, as honest, capable and popular. His salary will be $3,000 gold, the highest of any provincial governor.

Lieutenant Thompson of the Thirty-eighth regiment was appointed treasurer. The other officials are natives. The province contains nearly half the population of Panay, estimated at a million persons.

A feature of the session of the commission to-day was the opposition to the land taxation provisions, but a fuller explanation of the American system sufficed.

TORTURE OF AGUINALDO.

Solemn Joke of the Filipino Junta in London.

London, April 11.—At a secret meeting of the Filipino junta held here to-day, 35 representative Filipinos from Madrid, Barcelona, Paris and Brussels being present, there was read a telegram from the Singapore junta, which said that General MacArthur was preparing to torture Aguinaldo, unless he took the oath of allegiance to the United States and signed the peace proclamation. The Singapore junta urged those present at this London meeting to formulate a circular of protest directed to the European courts. It described in detail the engines of torture that were being erected by the Americans at the Malacanan palace at Manila. The meeting professed anxiety over this telegram from Singapore in spite of the publication here April 2 of a dispatch to the effect that Aguinaldo had already sworn allegiance to the United States. The meeting adjourned pending receipt of a report that the tortures had actually been inflicted on Aguinaldo, when, it was said, their protests to the European courts would be filed if the Filipino junta so advised. The Filipino leaders here ridicule the idea that the arrest of Aguinaldo will put a stop to the insurrection in the Philippines.