The morning news., 1899-10-29
s:EMS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
.-pr ARE $4,000 SQUARE MILES
N LUZON TO CONQUER.

,.,,o-e ViIes Outside of Manila.
,a.,rrents Have Destroyed the
n.,road as They We're Driven
,,.+b-Americans Trying to Cap
-. 1.-THE FiIipinOs Are Kept
Well supplied.
4 cst,aro oct. 2S-The Tribune prints
q ,,r,- of the situation in the Philip
Islands from its special correspondent
is.,s Richard H. Little. The letter, which
dated Manila Sept. "A, says:
4 .Iera ar. some figures, made seven
-,,,be and a half after our campaign
Z .,,i7st The FIipinos began. Say it is five
81 -r.s IN Aneeles-we hold possession of
q 4. railroad up to that point. We can
4 h-lv claim possession of the land a half
.rs on each side of the track. We have
,,..sssion of the wagon road, and, let
s. ..sav half mile on each side from San
Il Frardo. through Bacolor to Santa Rita,
..,,t miles. with four miles TO Guagua.
Vs have a road from Maiolos to Baliau-
., eleven miles northeast. We can claim
Fl slren square miles here.
I'VE have Manila, out as far as the
v,erworks five miles away. That gives
\, saw. twenty miles around the city.
Then we have the road and a half-mile
s,,h side down eighteen miles 20 linus.
Il Then we have Calamba and some other
q Do1ts on the lake that Gen. Lawton cap
q tusd before he was ordered back. These
4 towns are not approached by road, but by
bet across the Laguna de Bay, and we
only control the land they stand on.
adding up our total possessions we find
We have III square miles. The Island of
Luzon contains 1900 square miles.
InsurrcctiOn Is Growing.
"Outside Luzon the insurrection seems
to be growing, The insurgents hold ports
in Nrdanao, the next largest island to
Luzon in the Philippines and said to be
haculably rich in gold and silver mines,
hm and copper ores, and other minerals,
bedes possessing wonderful forests of
hard wood. No Americans have dared VEN
ue there as yet, as Gen. Otis has sent
@rooDs to the island. Englishmen and
i Gmans are prowling about the island
4 Citing ell the concessions they can. 1t
i aaid several prospecting parties are at
work.
Cen Otis reports conflicts between the
Il @ber bands and American soldiers in
&ros and Cebu. The Nineteenth, the
& Fifteenth aud the Sixth. and one battal-
moi the Twenty Infantry, are now
& lnese Islands, fighting the robber bands,
8 lo dis trenches and occupy towns, and
81 nAe night attacks after the fashion of
q l Insurgents in Luzon.
8 A late report from Cebu is that some
& w robbers We're menacing our forces,
hl collision was imminent.
Il The next campaign is going TO be diff
q h'nt from the last. We will get out of
rs Hat open country into mountains,
n a'Aly wooded country. If we do not end
ne war here we viii have to carry il into
VIZ hlsa, rocky-ribbed mountains of Lu-
After the Railroad.
II will be no violation of a state secret
70 say that the first object of the next
edmpaisn VIII be to get the rest OF The
ta'ioad Z, from The hands of the insurgents.
I1e insurgents ought to be firmly con-
nleed by this time that we want the
aahla and Dagupan Railroad, as we have
~usAt ong that line seven months.
tley Know we want it, and they also
alo" mat we are going to get it, for they
sg already tearing up the track, burn
s Ae ties and buryiug the rails north
Of Angeles.
Il The country east of the railroad. north
angeles to Dagupan is much like il is
81 'o4'n NJ. ol Manila, except higher ard brok-
81, t4 west Of The railroad are high noun
o.'s mat viii offer the insurgents bet
- opportunity 10 retreat and escape than
"gS had in the low country. With The
L"''S Oh the railroad we will have cut off
T'- provinces of Zambales, Paggasinan.
~ -'' '4e ana Panpanga and Bataan from
e,i- mann part of The island, and can ay
I'm I'm 10 good deal more country than
C,,r p.gllSe amount of real estate on which
0'' 1IlIy Is now camping.
walled City" in IL Qunndnry.
90. from the railroad AguinaIdo's army
+u ,.'. 'sraly retreat anywhere but north
,.ag- across the mountains to the fertile
Ts. vi jne Rio G!ande de Gagauary.
m. "a4'el city cannot under stand why
rqH,'l'5ay mas 50 much trouble with the
rolif' W. When the officers in the feIl
ho..' ue walled city that the rails have
1a- ,.. 'oin up from the section Of track iust
ari Il 81 aid that the ties have been burn
10 ~, a. 'd,.e destroyed they get an ord
is - 30 after few miles of railce ad
I'm any,, p'Nie' me soldiers have to scatter
ses. ''u Gown he track and go mining for
five or-5 's. The insurgents bury the rails
The ia ga Ieet deep. They observed thar
irg 1'tg 'lahs located the rails by sound
the -." " cFaWbar, so they resorted to
over ie1'1u. OF putting a layer of ties
ties '-e i'ls. TO replace the burned
force5 quart 'rtermaster"s department was
two no 20 use panks, Two boards. each
ties VICE, being neiied together for
the us,. Wv track, wherever possible all
CART p'aA 70 Manila. was jerked up.
ra's ,'.,., .'tu and put down where the
could te found
lin, some American Needs.
ra,ros5' american ~ army is badly in need OF
an. yes aud steel rails.
drah sI great need of ehe army Is light
ers 3,i Doats for use on the MANY riv.
a ps5e NA,s OF Luzon. There is hardiv
use rigo- 'Ne world where an army couLA
The pi, r. ''amets to greater advantage
Ianoar, rue the Chico, the Rio Grande
Iasg an we Asno, The Bicol and the
ly nargI. I'D" through fertile and dense.
TO 5 .''.7A valleys and offer a means
swi,r, army OF bringing up snnnIiae ana
dieB ga, ,''.slortng large bodies of SOL
udizee would be Invaluable were il
irsarsdma irrSm rhat can be learned from tbo
tae Pre-, uley are well satisfied with
Cangrs. N' condition of affaiy. rtboi.