LUKBAN
Lukban’ s deputies Gen. Claro Guevarra and Col. Francisco Rafael in their uniforms just before the surrender rites in Catbalogan, April 27, 1902( Source: https:// s-mediacache-ak0. pinimg. com / 736x / 3a / 95 / f9 / 3a95f962a7564b76ac224a7a2d814de9. jpg)
May 11. In Tacloban on May 13, a Lieut. Ignacio Alar, with 3 officers and 35 others gave themselves up with 12 Krag rifles, a Springfield rifle, 3 shotguns, and 1,000 rounds ammunition. According to Captain Penn’ s official report, this last surrender accounted for every insurgent officer known to them in Samar. 4
Restoration of peace in the towns
The transition from war to peace in Samar was not going to be easy, the new colonial administrators had to admit. First, the population even in towns garrisoned by the Americans had to be completely won over. Their being‘ timid and primitive’, with little or no understanding of government, and their previous unpleasant experiences with the soldiers and the police, made this task doubly difficult. No doubt, there was much hostility, the same hostility shown by the troops of Guevarra who at first refused to surrender. But the Americans saw it urgent to immediately organize a civilian government in every pueblo and establish a semblance of normality that was deprived of the population in the past few years.
In this task, the services of the surrendered officers, particularly Francisco Rafael, Narciso Abuke and Eugenio Daza, former officers of Lukban, would be useful. The three would not taste prison but were instead utilized for peace keeping functions. Each was given a district
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