Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-04-20
.LAWTON ORDERED BACK
The General With His Expe-
dition Returns to Manila.
STARTS ON THE RETREAT AT ONCE
All the Territory He Has Taken Is to Be
Evacuated Immediately-He Says That
One Hundred Thousand Troops Are
Needed to Successfully Combat the
acknowledgements Concentrating.

MANILA, April 17.-(New York
World Cablegram.)-Lawton's expedi-
ton has been ordered to Manila and
he will return Immediately. All terri
tory taken by Lawton will be evacu-
ated. The captured launches will be
returned to their former owners, from
whom the Filipinos took them. Law
ton authorized this statement at Paete
this morning:
THE present prospect is that 100.-
600 troops will be necessary to pacify
the islands. The difficulties are those
of fighting guerrillas in a tropical
country. With a brigade / could force
my way to the end of the island if did
not have to hold the ground traversed.
But leaving garrisons behind soon eats
up my force. regret the evacuation
OF the territory taken"
PALMER"
During the absence of Major General
Lawton's expedition to the Santa Cruz
district, on the southeastern side of
Laguna de Bay, the insurgents have
been concentrating at the northern end
of the lake, near Pasig, and the Amer
lean scouts report that several thou
sand are already there.
General Lawton's expedition is now
on its way back.
Two hundred and fifty Cinnamon
from Santa Cruz have arrived here
They left the town, owing to their
fear that the rebels, on re-entering it,
would wreak vengeance upon them
for favoring the Americans.
War has become so commonplace an
experience to Manila that the average
citizen no longer thinks of becoming
excited over it. Every night some
point of the horizon is crimsoned by
the reflection from burning huts, kim
died by the soldiers to deprive the in
surgents of hiding places. Every night
quiet is shaken by the firing from the
line encompassing the city. Every
morning brings its pitiful little con-
Segment Of accomplishing wounded
to the hospital. Manila forms an
American oasis in the island of Lu-
zon. Around the city stretches thin
line fifteen miles long of entrenched
soldiers.
The Filipino goes into the field I'M
encumbereu with useless baggage. Fol
lowing the course of their retreat be-
yond Guadalupe church went the cou-
venir enthusiasts who hung about the
American army. They found nothing
more than few tin cooking utensils
and empty cartridge shells, whose pat
tern prove that the insurgents have
the latest style of rifles. Trousers or
drawers, a shirt, cartridge belt and
rifle, a section of bamboo stalk filled
with rice, a handful of green peppers
tied in handkerchief, sometimes san
dals-these form the equipment of a
Filipino soldier
No finer country for defensive fight
ing and no more embarrassing for Of
fensive operations than the land
around Pasig lake could be imagined.
The Chinese are the scavengers of the
war. Like vuftures they hover in the
wake of the army, fiocking down upon
the ashes Of every hut and the ruins
of churches to dig out stuff that no
white man could possibly use.
Being beyond suspicion of any inter-
est in the hostilities save gain, they
are admitted 20 the camps and employ
ed as servants. Some of them peddle
water and cigarettes on the line. One,
more daring than most, crept about
the trenches of the Kansas regiment
under hot fire and did good trade.
When competitors appeared he has
tened to point out to them the spot
where a soldier had been wounded,
seemingly impressing on them the dan
gers of their position, for they ran
away.
The forces of destruction are con-
centrated upon the churches. They
are all solid buildings of stone, so the
natives use them as forts. Some church
has served as the keystone of nearly
every Filipino defense and the Ameri-
can artillery is compelled to batter
them.
Caloocan church is a picture of the
havoc Of war There General MacAr-
thur has his headquarters. The roof, a
sky blue fresco, studded with gilt stars,
has jagged holes where shells, from
Dewey's ships came through. Within
the chancel rail is the Office of the
staff and the pulpits are used for
desks. The rail holds a string of sad
dies, a telephone hangs beside the
statue of saint, while the telegraph
clicks necessarily in an alcove. Cots
and hammocks fill the body of the
church, where soldiers are sprawled
out smoking and reading when off
duty. A hospital occupies a chapel in
a corner. The soldiers do not lack
reverence, but everything must bend
before their work