Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21

ihe Operations Of the American
Army ii the Philippines.
THE CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH
APPEARS TO BE A VERY Sue
CESSFUL ONE, ALTHOUGH THE
ARMY is HANDICAPPED BY THE
WET WEATHER.


I; MANILA, November 20, 1925 a. m.-
Only fragmentary reports reach Manila
of the operations north, which, when
the story is known, will prove to have
to been the most remarkable cam
paigning the Philippine war has known.
Gen. Lawton's division is spread thinly
over the country beyond San Jose,
where the telegraph ends. Gen.
iYoung's two regiments of cavalry are
continuing their rapid sweep into the
new towns and the infantry is being
showed forward to hold the towns
while the cavalry takes all in country
whose natural difficulties are increas-
ed indescribably by tropical rains,
making rivers Of creeks and swamps OF
fields Wagon transportation is sup
posed to have been practically abandon
ed, the American troops living on cap
tured supplies and the little produce the
insurgent levies have left.
Major Samuel NJ. Swigert's squadron
of the Third Cavalry is reported to be
engaging a greatly superior force at Po-
zorrubio, northeast of Dagupan. These
troops have fought three engagements
and are now holding their position,
waiting for achievements. 1t is be-
lieved at headquarters that this Fill
Pine force is covering the retreat Of the
dnsurgent leaders to the Binguet noun
tains, that the insurgents planned to
retreat northeast along the Tayug road,
which is stocked with storehouses, three
of which the Americans have secured
to draw upon en- route, and that only
the insurgent advance force had passed
Tayug before the American occupation,
the main body of Aguinaldo's army
being within our lines. The majority
Of these insurgents may disorganize and
pose as Amigos when the Americans
Dvertake them.
Among the scraps of news obtainable
are stories of the hardships the Amer
lean army is meeting with. 1t is re-
ported, for instance, that Gen. Lawton
narrowly escaped drowning while
fording swift river, when Lieut.. Luna
and two privates were lost.
!,
q battalion of the Twenty-fifth infan-
try, Is on his way from Bamban to
O'Donell to take the insurgent cart
ridge-flling works there.
A Filipino captain who surrendered
with four men, to Colonel Andrew S.
Burt, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, des-
cribed the factory and volunteered to
guide the expedition.
The governor of Nueva Vizcaya has
determined, like many other Filipinos
in these days, that the administration of
his province cannot change too quick,
and is coming to Manila to tell Major
Gen. Otis of his loyalty and, incidental
ly, request that he be retained in Office
under the new regime.
Admiral Watson has received an adj
ditional credible report that Lieut.. J..
C. Gilmore and five of the captured
sailors of the United States gunboat
Yorktown, were at Tarlac, November
list. Lieut. Gilmore was living in Fill
ipino generals house.
The United States cruiser Baltimore
starts for Lingayen to-day and Rear
Admiral Watson purposes to send an
other ship to Natiguin if the gunboat
Helena, which is overdue, has not re-
turned to Lingayen.
Sailors from the gunboat Casino oc-
cupy Zamboanga on the southwest ex-
tremity of the island of Mindanao. The
business men, chiefly Chinese, request
ed Commander S. w. Very, Of the Cas-
tine, to take possession of the place and
protect them from the insurgents.
Commander Very landed naval force
and, although no details have been re-
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