New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-12
REPORTS FROM GENERAL OTIS.

INsURGENT ARMY DISINTEGRATlNG-VoL-
UNTEERs NOT cLAMoRING TO BE SENT
HoME-ARRIvAL OF THE HANCOCK.
Washington. May 1.-THE following dis
patches from General Otis were received by the
War Department to-day: ,,
Adjutant- General, Washington.
Situation as follows Succeeded IN passr n,s
Army gunboats to Calumpit lot use III To
Grande: railway connections with tnat poine
secured this week; passage OF gunboats throush
Macabebe country hailed with 1oyful demons IRA
lions by inhabitants. In country pase9eu
over by troops temporary civil administration
jnaug,Irated and protection to inhabitants
against insurgent abuses given as far as posSi-
bile. Signs of insurgent disintegratioh oaiIy
manifested Obstacles which natural features
of country present can be overcome OTIS
Manila. May IL.
Adjutant- General Washington.
Volunteer organizations hrst 70 return nov a,
Negroes and forty-fve miles from Mania AT
front. Expected that transports now arrNlhs
will take returning volunteers. Volunteers uh-
derstand they will begin to leave Tor ohlteu
States the latter part OF month know iIhpol-
lance of their presence here at this time ana ac-
cept the sacrifice which United states interests
make imperative. Hancock now entering mar
Dor Transports returning this week carry SICK
and wounded men, pennsylvania anu 81, .s an'
not needed longer in southern waters, where
thew have been retained hence dispatch; trans
ports Nelson and Cleveland brought frelgnt'
return without cargo. OIlS
Manila. May II.
Adjutant- General Washington.
Health condition troops arrived on Hancock
excellent; two deaths en- route, Privates j..
Jones and Elmer ". chevalier. Companies l.
and f, DIST Infantry, April - and 70. OTIS.
These advices were gratifying to the officials
OF the War Department. Portions Of the dis
patch regarding the situation relating, 1t is I'M
derstood to prospective movements were not
made public The cable dispatch regarding the
return of the volunteers indicates that the
troops are making no clamor to be sent home
but see the necessity of remaining until they
can be relieved by the Regulars now on their
way and TO be sent TO Manila. General Otis
says the troops to be sent first are In the
island of Negros and at the front. This no
doubt means the California regiment, winch Is
probably in Negroes. and IL is known that the
oregon regiment is with General Lawton some
where near Maasin.
The Hancock which General Otis reports en-
tering the harbor, sailed from San Francisco on
April IS carrying the 21st Infantry and Light
Battery f, LIST Artillery 80 officers and 1.Aol
enlisted men, under command OF Colonel jacob
Kline, 21st Infantry. The trip OF the Hancock
across the Pacific was a record-breaker. The
record heretofore was twenty-eight days. the
Sherman made the eastward trip. and the Sen
eca and the Scandia the westward trip In that
time. The time OF the Hancock was twenty
two days. and she covered the entire distance
across the Pacific without stopping being the
first transport to accomplish that feat. In view
of the success of the Hancock. the Department
has decided to do away with the usual stop at
having coal capacity sufficient to make the trip
from San Francisco to Manila.