The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-11
UNCENSORED manila NEWS.
Hard Conditions of the RAINY Sea-
son Graphically Told.
OTIS NEEDS MANY MORE MEN

CHICAGO, Aug. GA Manild corrc-
spondent of the Chicago Tribune,
under date of June 26, writes
The next campaign can hardly
begin sooner than November, although
the country may dry up enough
towards the middle of October to per-
NIT the American troops to take the
field then. The American army dur
ing the rainy season can hardly be
expected to do anything more than
hold what it has gained and prepare
for the next campaign The ground
to defend is not very great.
On the south of Manila we have
linus, about fifteen miles away. This
territory was gained only within the
last two weeks by the hard fighting
at Paranaqua, at which even the rat
tile of the rifles could be heard in Ma
inila We hold the road that runs to
linus through Paranaqua and Bacoor,
every inch of which was only gained
by hard fighting and has to be closely
guarded all the way to linus by
troops in trenches or massed in two
or three companies at the villages
and bridges.
q Northward the farthest point in the
control Of our soldiers is San Fernan-
do, forty-one miles from Manila, on
the railroad. The railroad is 149 miles
in length in all, but the insurgents
control all the tracks between San
Fernando and Dagupan, the northern
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tionists are in possession of three
fourths of the rolling stock. They
have twent-seven of the roads loco
motives, while the Americans have
only four. The rest of the rolling
stock is distributed between the two
parties in like ratio.
The Americans hold Cana banda,
east of San Fernando, ten miles. They
hold all the towns along the railroad,
of course, to San Fernando and Bal
iuag, seven miles east of Pulilan.
The insurgents have their intrench-
Fernando and Baliuag, and their out
posts are in sight of the American
outposts.
An officer down from San Fernando
told me to-day that the insurgents
seemed never to relax their vigilance.
Their sharpshooters and skirmlshers
are always alert and frequently the
showing of head by careless Amer
lean picket will draw four or five
shots from the enemy in twinkling
and start general fusilade.
The country north of Baliuag that
General Lawton's troops marched over
to San Isidor had all to be evacuated,
owing to the lack Of troops to gar
rison the captured towns, and Will
have to be retaken afresh when the
mex. campaign opens.
The insurgents are continually re-
ceiving fresh supplies and arms At
Paranaqua, week ago, they aston
ished the Americans by bringing out
some modern field pieces that they
had obtained somewhere. Heavy
shipments of arms are said to be con-
stantly arriving from Japan and Aus
tralia and, it is said, even from our
own country. Cartridges picked up
in the insurgent trenches bear the
trade mark of big manufacturing
firm in the United States
The insurgents have three factories
where they manufacture cartridges
and other munitions of war. If they
were kept on the run they would have
no time to equip themselves, but they
return after every defeat, better able
to fight than they were before. They
are learning things in every encount-
er with the Americans. The papers
in Manila have continually refer
red to the fact that the rebels
were prone TO shoot too high,
and they seemed finally to have
learned the lesson and now they are
getting their shots well down and
showing a great improvement in mark
manship They also fight in better
formation, and at the battle of Daz-
minas | saw mounted officers in flash
ing red breeches, with white coats,
galloping saucily about the field, and
proba bly, doing much by their spec
tacular attire to give their followers
increased confluence duu BICdbCt WAAA
ingness to follow their commands,
War is a terrible school, but it is
school, just the same, and we seem to
be teaching the Filipinos many tricks
at our own expense. Every month we
go on fighting them without ma
terial advantage to our side is
giving them greater strength and con-
tidence The American army is
as sick of Jack rabbit hunts" as
tine most rabid anti-expansionists
in America are. The soldiers are
sick of capturing town one day and
abandoning it the next, of marching
up hill for the sake of marching
down again. General Lawton twice
had the enemy between his advancing
lines and fresh water lake, which
effectually cut off their retreat Both
times the crafty Filipinos sent in en-
voys asking overtures for peace. GEN
eral Lawton's hands were stayed and
in the night the enemy wriggled out
Everything lovely in the Philip
pines" has commenced to be as mis-
leading a phase as was the "All quiet
along the Potamac tonight in the
civil war.