The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
RESULTS OF THE CAMPAIGN
SMALL AREA OF LUZoS YET con-
TROLLED ny AMERICANS.
in Possession of I17-This Does
Not JncIude Isianda Which Are

CHICAGO. Oct 2s-Tse Tribune today
prints summary OK the situation IN the
Philippine islands from its special corre-
spondent there. Richard Fl. Little The
letter, which Is dated Manila. September
u. says:
Here are some figures. made seven
months and half after our campaign
against the Fiipinos began. Say II Ii
ncty-oas miles 20 Angeles. We hold pos
session OF the railroad up 10 that point
We can fairly claim possession OF the
land "A half mile each side Of the track
We have possession OF the wagon read
and. let as say, half mile on each side
from San Fernando through Bacolor 10
Santa Rita. eight miles. with four miles
10 Gusgua. We have a road from MAloios
70 Eaiianax, eleven mites northeast. We
can claim eleven square miles here
We have Manila. cut as Tar a. the wa
ter WORKS five miles away. That gives
liza, aay. twenty-five miles around the city
Then have the road and e half mile
each side. down eighteen miles 10 linus.
Then vs. have Calamba and some other
points on the lake thai Gen Lawton
captured before ha was ordered back
These towns are not approached by road
but by boat across the Lagun de Bay
and We only control the land they stand
On.
Adding up our total possessions. We ind
va have III square miles.
The island OF Luzon contains 5000
Outside OF I.uzon the Instruction seems
to b. growing.
Mines Of Mindanao.
The insurgents hold ports In Mindanao.
the next largest Island 70 Luzon in the
Philippines, and said TO be intellectually
rich in gold and silver mines. iron aud
copper ores. coal and other minerals. be.
sides possessing wonderful forests Of hard
wood No Americans have dared 10 ven
ture there as yet as Gen. Otis has sent
no troops TO the island Engifshmen and
Germans are proving about the island
getting all tho concessions they can. II
Is said several prospecting parties are at
work.
Gen. Otis reports conflicts between the
"robber bands and American soldiers tn
Negroes and Csbu TIE Nineteenth. the
Eighteenth. the Sixth and ons battalion
these two islands fighting the ''robher
bands" who dig trenches and occup<
towns and make night attacks, after the
fashion Of the insurgents In Luxon
late report from cebu liz. tina. some
2.ooo robbers were menseing our forces.
and collision was imminent.
The next campaign Is going to be differ
ent from the last. We win sc. out ~ the
Fat. open country into the mountainous
fhickly wooded country. II we do NOT end
the war here We will have to carry II into
the high. rocky mountains OF IAIzon.
Must Fight In the Mountains.
IL VIII De no violation OF state secret
to say that the FIRST object Of the next cam
paign will ne 10 take the rest OF the all
road from tho hands OF the insurgents The
Insurgents ought To be firmly convinced by
this time that We want the Manila and
Dagupan road. as We have fought along
tina. iine seven months They know We
want It. and they also know that We are
going 20 get II. for they are already tear
Ing un the track, burning the ties and bury
Ing the rails north Of Angeles
The country east n the railroad. north
Of Angeles 10 Dagupan. Is mitch as II Is
south OF Manila. excep. higher and more
broken
West Of the railroad are high mountains
that VIII offer the insurgents better oppor-
tnnity Of retreat ana escape than they had
IN the how country. With the taking Of
the railroad we Will have cut of the nrov-
inees Of Zamhales. Baggssinan Tarinc.
fanpanea and Bataan from the main part
OF ths island. and can lay claim TO q good
deal mora country than the precise amount
OF real estate on which our army il now
existing
THE walled city" cannot undsr..ans
why the enemy has 40 much trouble with
the railroad When he officers in the
fsld notify the walled city that the -siia
have been torn up from this section or the
track Just captured and that the tIes have
been burned and the srasies DESTROYED they
get up az order 10 FIX IT." So after 4
few mites OF railroad are captured, IN. sol
oars nave TO scatter up and down the
track and go mining FOR steel rails
Rebuilding OF Railroads..
The Insurgents bury the rails FIVE or six
feet deep. They observed that the Autsrt-
cars located the rails by sounding with /.
clowhaT. 50 thcy resorted 70 the evredient
OF putting layer of TIES over the ratts To
Replace the burned ties The auarternlsster'
o. p4i inert WAS forced 20 use plsnks two
Boards, each two inches wide being nstI,d
together Tor ties. The siietrsek wherever
possible, all the way back 10 Mantl, was
tefsed NJ. carried north and pat down
~here the tSils could not Re found
Another grc&t need Of the army IS light
0Fatt steamboats, for use on the many riy
ers and lakes ef i-uzon There I. har.sfv a
place III the world whore an army ro1,la
u"e river steamers 70 greater ADVANTAGE
The Rio Grande a. the Chtco tha Tstn
tfande FanpangA the Agno the plcol and
t1e fnSie. all dow through fertile ana
oFnst}N populated val}eys and offer moan.
I" me army OF bringing un supplies ana
hNdtS transporting big bodies Of sn]3iera
slNt WOULD II" ins3 iBaAie ~~r. II utilized
= rom what can be iearned from he in
h"fRrhS. theN are We'll satisfied Win tha
it'>f NJ condition 81 affairs Their con
ttrN~ ms last returned I communication 70
tHe American peace CaEQmitx~i0u ircIar4Oy
sAA' u u'ie facy aouid have accepted s9it N
"h'N iF"na oar government II they had 20 ~s
j"i' ~ dealt vita a. first thew will row
t"a~i@r' -" proposition rxrest frtgf,s,a,.-
e'}Fc. With almost = o., miles ~ tsrrit -
tF'm "ht"@ 20 dtaw supplies aui With
boats coming in without any ox,7ssf.t,7
from }tonghoss. japan ara from, t-sntrst
ara N"atn Af"trtya and Australia. the in
49, gents ifotatlN are doing well a. far -
sUpEjtts are concerned