Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-10-29

third Infantry are now in these Islands
lighting the robber bands, who dig
trenches and occupy towns and make
night attacks after the fashion of the
insurgents i'll Luzon.
~ late report from Cebu is that
some 1000 robbers were menacing
our forces and a collision was immi-
nent.
THE NENT CAMPAIGN.
The next campaign is going to be
ciiterent from the last. We will get
out of the flat, open country into noun
famous. thlckly wooded country. If we
do not end the war here We will have
10 carry 1t Into the high, rocky ribbed
mountains of Luzon.
1T Will be no violation of a State Sc
cret TO say that the first object Of the
next campaign will be to get the rest
OF the railroad from the hands OF the
insurSents. The insurgents ought to be
lrmiy convinced by this time that we
want the Manila and Dagupln railroad,
as we have fought along that line sew
cn months. They know we want 1t. and
they also know that We are going to
get 1t, for they are already tearing up
the track. burning the ties, and bury
ing the rails NORTH of Angeles.
Ihe country east of the railroad
north OF Angeles TO Dagupan is much
ike 1t that Is south of Manila, except
higher and broken. West OF the rail-
road are high mountains that will offer
me insurgents better opportunity to re-
treat and escape than they had in the
low country. With the taking of the
railroad we will have cut off the prov
inceS OF Iamabales, PaggassInan, Tar
lac. anu FampanEa and Bataan. from
lie main part of the island. ana can Law
csain to a good deal more country than
INC precise amount OF real estate on
which our army is now camping.
From the railroad Aguinaldo's army
can hardly retreat anywhere but north.
ware AGREES the mountains to the fer
Tile valley of the Rio Granue de Caga-
vary.
TROUBLE WITH THE RAILROADS.
The walled city cannot understand
why the army has so much trouble with
INC railroad. When the officers in the
HELD notify the walled city that the
iaiis nave been torn up from the sec
ton OF track just captured, and that
.ne ties have been burned and the
grade destroyed, they get an order to
'iiN It, So after few miles OF railroad
are captured the soldiers have to scat
ter up and down the track and go min
ing for steel rails. The insurgents bury
the rails five or six feet deep. They
observed that the Americans located
the rails by sounding With crowbar,
so they resorted to the expedient of put
ting layer of ties over the rails. To
replace the burned Ties the Quarter
masters Department were forced to
use p'nRks, two boards, each two Inches
| wide being nailed together for ties. The
side track, wherever possible, all the
way back to Manila, was jerked UP.
carried north and put down where the
rails could be found.
~ GREAT NEED.
THE American army is badly in need
OF railroad tics and steel rails.
Another great need OF the army Is
light draft steamboats, for use on the
many rivers aud lakes of Luzon
There is hardly Il place In the world
whore an army can use river steamers
10 great advantage. The Rio Grande,
the Chico, the Rio Grnnde Pampanga,
flow through fertile and densely pop
ulatcd valleys and offer means to
the army of bringing up supplies and
swiftly transporting large bodies OF
soldiers that would be Invaluable were
1t utilized.
FIL1PINOs DEMAND INDEPEN-
DENCI1.,
"From what can be learned from the
insurgents they are we'll satisfied with
the present condition OF affairs Their
congress has just returned IL communi-
cation to the American peace commits
sion declaring that, while they would
have accepted autonomy from our gov
eminent if they had been properly
dealt with at first tfrry lit now corr
slider no proposition except indepen-
dence. With almost $4,000 miles of ter
ritory from which to draw supplies
and with boats coming In without any
opposition from Hong Kong, Japan
and from Central and South America
and Australia, the Insurgents probably
lare doing we'll as far as supplies are