The sun., 1899-03-28
THE sIrUArIoy At MANILA.
Views Of an American Who Has Been There
and Knows the Country Well.


and Knows the Country Well.
man who Is familiar with the situation In
the Philippines and who Is also In touch with
the situation in Washington said last night:
! ITS u Troublesome problem Otis has on his
! hands. but he viii solve 1t Tho only solu-
tion. Of course. Is tho suppression of the
| rebels in the island Of I.u'Dn. l think our
| force there at present is strong enough to
| do the trick. know It will be when the Sheri-
| dan with its troops arrives at Manila Do not
| misunderstood inc. however. Those will not
! be enough to complete our work In the Philip
| pines. and the quicker the regiments now
| under orders are sent hence the better. II
| takes more men to fight battles in the Philip
pines in warm weather than in the cool sea-
son, and the mon who are doing the fighting
| now will need a breathing spell
The country through which we are fighting
now does not differ materially from the coun-
try through which we fought the Spaniards.
OF tho main roads IL is mostly rice swamps
and bamboo thickets. In the swamps and
thickets the natives can fight TO advantage be-
cause they know the country. They do not
know how to reckon with our artillcrymen,
however. and the artillery will prove OF incs-
timable value to us. But. above ALL We have
ir command Of the troops what consider the
best lot Of officers in the army. As division
commanders l do not consider that there
are two officers in the service the equals
OF Macarthur ard Lawton. Wheaton, Colonel
OF tho Twentieth Infantry. is a man OF about
I'll. vigorous mentally and physically and fine
officer Hale, although very youn. man to
be general officer-he is only about Sis
master Of any proposition he tackles He was
graduated from West Point in 1884. well UP in
his class. He remained in the army for few
Years. and then went into the electrical
,a,'' aNu te" "o' nv ',' NV 80. N'
business Hall. whose name has lately ap-
peared in the papers, is Robert H. Hail.
Colonial ~ the Fourth Infantry He was grad.
,,ataa t-,,, w.st poin, T., ,,,,o ,nd u.s 90
missioLsd a Brigadier- General Of Volunteers
on Nav OF LAST He ia a aparticularlv resource
fu man. and if he gets in Aguinaldos immedi-
p thyee tran ke @ tSe hs carries ee at Ts
to keep himself out Of Halls way. Ovenshine
is. think. the Oldest of the brigade comman-
usrs' In 'ne reg, rseuiar service ne ms Is .o'one. o'
the Twenty-thrd Infantry. He has cool,
Oti, ars m 10Th No. exceIlsnt :, W hrisads comm ndsrs
o.,s ",o oo'" 'N'''''"' oi's"uo '','' u,
BUT IN my 'udsm"nt' ua,'i we wou,dn he tsnt-
two tbings Onsw,s tha signing y, IN. ne,ce
Two ,hinss' one was 'he SIGNING o .he 'eacs
tho other was the delay, unayoidable though
II was in eottine the spnnish troops out Of the
~ ""s III s''''"t '''o ''""'o'' '''',' w. W ' ~,
islands The peace protocol required that all
hostilities should cease after it was signed. and
49, - h,,la oonCro o,,. ,r.aonoo 10 tho
'nat we shouia cohihe our presence 10 the
city aud bay OF Manila. That left all the rest
OF the island of Luzon for Aguinaldo to operate
IN On S.nt bia forcas ware nearlv
'n' on sop'' no io,'e "Vio '"''
out OF ammunition and short OF sup
plios He controlled however the only
ranro,d r,,nnina ,hrarah ~. is,,rd ,ron,
Idhtodu running 'hi"ush 'he isiahu iIoni
Manila to Dagupan. which is town on Lin
gayen Bay 100 miles northwest of Manila. He
established his headquarters at Malolos. and
whenever he pleased.
~, The harbor OF Daguran u very iair one.
sells in their service: Now it is no Ruesswork
on my part when tell you that on Sept the
needful to carry on a war Seven months
have passed since then; During al put
have remained in Manila and Dewey's ships
in Manila bay; When our, army got uto the
heart Of the rebel country ii found the natives,
Judging by the fight they have put up during
the past two days. .wnll provided with ammu..
nitipn and Their munitions of