[398] Many men were soldiers at one time and brigands at another.

Unquestionably soldiers and brigands sometimes cooeperated.

Garrisons were withdrawn from towns which did not promptly and fully comply with the demands of Insurgent commanders, [399] and armed bandits appeared and plundered them.
There were some Insurgent leaders, like Cailles, who suppressed brigandage with a heavy hand, [400] but many of them were indifferent, even if not in alliance with the evil doers.
The Visayas Feeling between Tagalog soldiers and Visayan people grew constantly more bitter, and before many months had passed they fell to killing each other.

The highest officers of the "Regional Revolutionary Government of the Visayas" protested vigorously to Aguinaldo, [401] but without result.

The situation was entirely beyond his control.
On April 20, 1899, General Delgado issued an order which tells a significant story of conditions, and of his own weakness in dealing with them.