Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-13
NEW ARMY IN MANILA.
First Of the Provisional Army Vol.
unteers Arrive for Duty in
Philippines.
Troops Will Be Poured Into the
Islands, Two Regiments a
Week.
All Captured Territory to Be Held
and an Aggressive Campaign
Waged.


reached. The first of the new voun-
teer troops have arrived at Manila.
For three months state troops have
been leaving the Philippines for home,
ling steadily until it shrank to 81 900
men. For three months to come the
new volunteers will pour into Manila,
until the American legions reach the
$1,000 mark.
The last of the returning volunteers,
the Tennessee regiment, are at Maya
saki, Japan. on the way home. The
vanguard of the new regiment, sec
ton of the Thirty fourth United States
volunteers. has arrived at the Philip
pine capital. The detachment con
sists of five companies. with thirteen
officers and $50 enlisted men. Ii sailed
from SAN Francisco Sept. s on the
transport Columbia. The other section
lis on the Belgian King, which sailed
the same day.
From this day forth Gen. Otis force
will grow by regiments and half regi-
ments with rapidity seldom if ever
eGualed under similar conditions of
distance. The constant drain of Amer
lean troops for many weeks may have.
deiuded the Filipinos into the notion
that the United States was abandoning
1.-The fight buttile more ignorant of the
natives can not fail to understand the
meaning of the thousands of reinforce-
Ements pouring into Manila.
During the next eleven or twelve
weeks American soldiers will join Otis
at the rate of two big regiments a
Week. and the news of their arrival is
I likely To be scattered over the island
Of Luzon by the native scouts Eight
I of these regiments. counting the Thir-
Ity-fourth as among them. are afioat on
the Pacific. and rapidly approaching
Manila. The other fourteen organized
lin this country Will follow so quickly
THAT Otis will have his army of $1,000
fighting men by Christmas or New
Years day.
The twenty five regiments are prac-
I tically full. All but one of them have
their full quotas of enlisted men The
Fortyninth. the last of the two coll
l.ored regiments, lacked about 500 men
Hast night. but they will probably be
secured by Saturday.
The war officials are happy over the
progress made in raising the volunteer
army. They established rigorous tests
4 for enlistment, rejecting three or fou,
Il men for each one accepted, and yet
y they succeeded in recruiting the TWEEN
ty-five regiments in about three
months. This is considered remarka-
4 bic
These regiments will have approxi-
mately S4.000 officers and men. A large
4 percentage of the men saw service in
the war with Spain or III the Philip
pines. They start with 4 training and
q a hardening that makes them almost
as good as veterans They are in every
way a superior let of men, aud war Of
ficials regard them as the best army
ever raised in this or any other coun-
try
The arrival of the first detachment
4 III THESE volunteers puts an entirely
new face on the situation in the Phil
ippines, Cen. Otis can now 50 forward
with his advance with the assuranc,
that troops are coming TO hold every
milo Of territory taken from the enc
my. The days of Withdrawing troop
ard abandoning outposts because OF
dwindltng army are past
Now that the face of Luzon is gettin!
somewhat arier the American troop
have already taken the offensive an
they wiz keep at il until Aguinald
and his band surrenders or vanishes
Gen Otis sent a dispatch yesterda
showing that the American lines ar
advanced both north and south of Ma
Mia.
ANOTHER evidence Of the activity an