The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-23
MORE TROOPS NEEDED
For Subjugation of the
Philippines
ESTIMATES OF AN OFFICER

the Army Needed at One Hundred and
Fifty Thousand-Phiiippin Army
fakes TO the SWamPs-Dlsnearten
BY Their Recent Defeat-Forced TO
| Liberate British PrIsoners-A French
| Baron Murdered by Insurgents.
| San Francisco, June 21.-Dr. Charles
| A. McQuesten, who was on the staff
! Of General E. S. Otis ,and who was
| health officer at Manila, has returned
| home invalided by the climate.
| Captain McQuesten made a close
study of the conditions of the Philip
! pine situation. He is of the opinion
| that it will take from 100, 900 to 10000
| soldiers to properly subdue and hold
| the islands. He also says that the
peace commission was an absolute fail
ure, and that it's work from the start
| was without effect. He strongly sup
ports the military government Of the
| islands, except that he thinks more
men will be necessary than has been
estimated
DR.. Schurman knows that the COM
| mission is failure and is coming home
| in July, added Captain McQuesten. He
also said:
UNLESS troops, thousands of them,
| are sent to the aid of our men there
| they will be driven back into Manila in
| the course of the next few months,
| during the rainy season. Our men SIM
ply cannot stand the climate. Fifty per
cent. of them will be incapacitated by
| sickness and the territory Overrun will
have to be abandoned and Manila will
| be in a state of siege again. Our Off
GERS and soldiers have accomplished
much and have proved themselves the
| best soldiers in the world; but moth
ing decisive has come Of it, because
| our men were not in great enough
/ force"
| PHILIPPINES TAKE TO THE
F. SWAMPS.
Manila June 21-The inSurgent army
+; has taken to the svamps and hills be-
| yond linus. The largest force rs sup
posed to be IN the neighborhood Of
| San Francisco de Malabon, holding a
| position more toward the lake or to-
! ward the coast, according as exigencies
| demand.
! General Wheaton returned to linus
today, brnging three men al. who were
! The heavy rains that fall nightly
| make campaig niry uncomfortable. The
roads are still good, but the rice fields
| adjoining them are pools of water.
| The Philippines will not fight unless
| they can meet our troops in positions
most advantageous to themselves or
! take our accommodating bodies in am
! bush.
OUR RECENT VICTORIES SUR
PRISE PHILIPPINES.
| 1t is impossible to learn what effect
| the recent defeat has had upon their
| leaders This should be disheartening,
| for they had boasted that the Ameri-
! cans could never conquer the province
! Of Cavite, Aguinaldo's home country,
| where he always worsted the Spaniacds.
General Otis recently received letter
| signed by native women of the province
| declaring that if all the men were kill
| ed, the women would still keep up the
| fight against the Americans.
| Copies of the insurgent organ, Inde-
| pendencia, show that the Philippines
| hopes of success are kept afane by po-
litical movements in America. The In
| dependencia prints reports OF alleged
| speeches made at alleged meetings IN
the United States, denouncing the war,
| and it asserts that these represent the
| dominant American sentiment. 1t de-
lclares also that the Philippines will
L
| Dental campaign, which is sure TO
result in decision to withdraw the
| Americans troops from the philippines.
| It is reported that the Spanish gar
| rison at Baler, in the province of Pr1n-
| cipe, on the east &C asst of LuZon, which
| had become reduced to thirty men,
| finally surrendered to the Philippines
I, after holding out for a year.
FORCED TO SURRENDER ENGLISH
| PRISONERS.
| The Philippines imprisoned two Eng
/ lishmen at Tachloben on the island Of
Samar, southeast of Luzon. The Brit
| ish first class cruiser Grafton steamed
| to that point from Cebu and her COM
mander demanded their release. When
! this was refused, he landed force of
marines and cleared his ship for action,
| whereupon the Englishmen were hand
! ed over.
A FRENCH BARON MURDERED.
Madrid, June 21.-A dispatch to The
Imparciaa from Manila says Baron du
Marias, Frenchman, who went to the
| rebel camp to intervene in behalf of the
| Spanish prisoners in the hands of the
Philippines has been treacherously
murdered
Washington. June 21.-The first re-
ports of the murder of Baron du Marias
was received in New York from Ma
Mia, under date of May 11th and May
10Th. It was announced that T. 3.
du Marais, of Philadelphia, a brother
OF Baron du Marais, was seeking in
formation concerning the fate Of the
baron. Adjutant General Corbin tele-
graphed to Major General Otis, who
replied as follows: "a committee OF
citizens sent du Marais to the. insur-
gent authorities to intercede for the. re-
lease OF the Spanish prisoners. The last
information regarding him was that he
was with .Luna's forces at Calump1t,
before the town was captured It Is the
belief of many citizens here that du
Marais was murdered. Others believe