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made about the way dispatches We're
being stopped and mangled at Manila,
| the War Department was satisfied with
| the explanation of General Otis that
great liberty was being allowed, with
only such restrictions as prevented ad-
vance information of military oper-
atoms becoming known to the enemy.
The President has remarked to visit
| ors who preached the subject that he
was anxious to have the fullest knowl.
edge of Philippine affairs disseminated
| and that he was disposed to have the
widest latitude commensurate with
| military necessity given to the Ameri-
can correspondents throughout the ISL
ands. When the latest disclosures re-
garding the petty annoyances CORE,
spondents have met are officially sub
stantiated, as in all probability they
| speedily will be. orders from WASH
ingtOn will undoubtedly cause their
abatement
It is the impression that the gist if
not the entire subject matter of the COR
respondents complaint will be sent by
| cable to General Otis by the War De-
partment and that he will be asked for
his version of the specifications they
charge. Should this rejoinder simply
deny the very serious charges in the
general stereotyped sentences to which
| such Partially has been shown in the
past, there is no doubt that the general
officers in the field in Luzon will bs
called on directly for brief reports o.
the condition of affairs. 1t is a signiti-
cant fact that none of them have had
an opportunity to present any state
| ment regarding the campaign since
| their accounts of the opening of hos
tilities early last February, and that
General Otis has permitted four months
to pass without sending a single mail
report to the War Department, pre-
ferring to confine himself to brief and
generally indefinite cable dispatches.
COMMENT OF BRITISH PRESS.
LONDON, July 1S.-The afternoon
newspapers of this city generally, in
commenting on the protest of the
American correspondents in Manila
against the censorship, denounce the
American Philippine campaign as it
has been managed by Secretary Alger
and Major General Elwell S. Otis. The
The ''St. James Gazette" says:
1.-The great American people has been
hoodwinked by it's General and it's Ad,
ministration. who have kept up a series
of suppressions of the truth and sug-
gestions of the false. of Russian in,
genuity and thoroughness.'
The Pail Mall Gazette says:
THE correspondents have done their
duty to the public as journalists and
gentlemen should
The Times" in it's leading editorial
article to-day says:
"Alger has run the War Office as a
political machine. Military posts have
been bestowed upon political friends
without regard to fitness or the inter-
| ests of the country. Dishonesty and
corruption have been rampant wher-
ever there was public money to be
| handled. American soldiers were killed
by thousands on American soil by such
agencies as embalmed beef and scan
dalous neglect of elementary sanitation.
| AS the head is. so we expect subordi-
mates to be. They We're chosen without
regard to fitness. but with every regard
to political service. Naturally they act
as the politicians they are rather than
as soldiers and administrators, which
they are not. The new imperial policy
of the United States is now discredited
| by association with a system of corrup-
| ton. Mckinley. for some reason or
| other. is INCAPABLE of Kidding himself
of the incubus of his Secretary. who
evidently regarding himself as having
the President in his pocket, serenely
defies the public indignation that has
been aroused by his nismanagements -
| OTIS OR CORRESPONDENTS MUST
GO.
NEW YORK, July 1S.-The Wash
| ington correspondent of the Herald"
quotes a member of the Cabinet as
| follows:
Either Major General Otis or the
newspaper correspondents must go.
ITO deport the correspondents will
| probably be accepted at home and
abroad as a return to the old Spanish
method of muzzling the press.
ITO relieve Major General Otis will
mean an official acknowledgement of
| his failure and a decentralization of
| military discipline.
| The above statement was made when
| the member of the Cabinet was asked
| to discuss the problem which confronts
| the Administration as a result of pub
| LEGATION of the newspaper correspond
ents' round robin" protesting against
| the course of General Otis in prevent
ing the real facts regarding the Phil
| ippine situation from becoming known.
| GOOD WORK OF THE COMMITS
SION.
| WASHINGTON, July 1S-The ad-
vices which the President received
| from Manila yesterday, and which
| have given so much comfort and en-
| couragement to the members of the
Cabinet to whom they were communi-
Gated, had a bearing rather on the po-
litical than the military situation, al
though there is naturally a very direct
| connection between the two at this
| time. The committee, or at least, So
much of it as remains at Manila since
the departure of President Schurman
and Admiral Dewey, has been unrelax-
| ing in the effort to restore the conf
dence of the natives and to aid mill
tary operations by inducing defections
among Aguinaldo's followers Some
| said, than the public is acquainted
with. for not only have the United
States authorities been able to secure
unqualified adhesion of the natives of
| the more important islands outside OF
Luzon in the Philippine group, but
even in that island they have steadily
encroached on what was regarded as
purely insurgent territory and are ar
ranging for the establishment of civil
governments in some of the provinces
| of the island wherein Aguinaldo has
! heretofore been the strongest r.