The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-29

We have road from Malolos to BAHIA
uag, eleven miles northeast. We can
claim elaven square miles here.
We have Manila, out as far as the
waterworks, five miles away That
gives us, say TWENTY-FIVE miles around
the city
Then we have the road and half
mile each side down, eighteen miles to
linus. Then we have Calamba and
some other points on the lake that
General Lawton captured before he
was ordered back. These towns are
not approached by road, but by boat
across the Jaguna 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 $4,000 square
miles.
instruction Is Growing.
Outside of Luzon the irsurrection
seems to be growing. The insurgents
hold ports in Mindanao. the next lar
gest island to Luzon in the Philippines,
and are said to be intellectually rich in
gold and silver mines. iron and COPPER
ores, coal ard other minerals, besides
possessing wonderful forests of hard
wood. No Americans have dared TO
venture there as yet, as General Otis
has sent no troops TO the island. Eng
about the island, getting all the con-
cessions they can. 1t is said several
prospecting parties are at work.
General Otis reports conflicts be-
tween the ''rObber bands" and Ameri-
can soldiers in Negroes and Cebu. The
Nineteenth, the Eighteenth, the Sixth
and one battalion of the Twenty-third
infantry are now in those two islands
fighting the "robber bands who dig
trenches and occupy towns and make
night attacks after the fashion of the
insurgents in LuZon. A late report
from Cebu is thar some 2,000 robbers
We're menacing our forces, and col
lison was imminent.
The next campaign is going to be
different from the last We Will get
out Of the aat. open country into noun
famous. thickly wooded country. II
We do not end the war here. We will
have to carry it into the high, rocky
mountains of Luzon.
Object Of Next Campaign
It will be no violation of a state
secret to say that the first object of
t. next campaign viii be to take the
rest of the railroad from the hands OF
the insurgents The insurgents ought
TO be firmly convinced by this time
that we want the Manila & Dagupan
road as we have fought along that line
seven months. They know we want 1t,
and they also know that We are going
to get it, for they are already tearing
up the track. burning the ties and
burying the rails north Of Angeles.
The country east of the railroad,
north OF Angeles to Dagupan, is much
like it is south Of Manila. except higher
and more broken. West Of the railroad
are high mountains that viii offer the
insurgents better opportunity OF re-
treat and escape than they had in the
low country. With the taking of the
railroad we viii have cut off the prov
inces Of Zambales, PdggaSinan, Tarlac
and Pan Panga. and Bataan from the
main part of the island. and can lay
claim to a good deal more country than
the precise amount Of real estate on
which our army is now consisting.
1.-The Walled City"
THE walled city cannot understand
why the army has so much trouble with
the railroad. When the officers in the
field notify the walled city" that the
rails have been torn up from TIE sec
ton Of track just captured, and that
the ties have been burned and the
grade destroyed, they get an order to
fix it," So. after few miles of rail-
road are captured the soldiers have to
scatter up and down the track and go
mining for steel rails.
The insurgents bury the rails five or
six feet deep. They observed that the
Americans located the rails by sound
ing with a crowbar, so they resorted TO
the expedient of putting a layer Of ties
over the rails. To replace the burned
ties the quartermaster's department
was forced TO use planks. two boards
each two inches wide being nailed to-
gether, for ties. The sidetrack, wher-