Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-05-18
THE REBELS ARR COWED..
Otis Reports Forces Of the En-
envy Disintegrating Daily.
the GUNBOAIS JOYfUlLY RECEIVED


!" WASHINGTON, May 12.-General
Otis has cabled the war department
concerning the situation in the Phil
ippines. He says that it Is very en-
couraging. The tone of the dispatch
+ leads the officials here to believe that
the end of the Filipino insurrection
Is near at hand" Following Is the text
OF the dispatch from General OTIS"
MANILA, May f1!--Adjutant' Gener-
al, Washington Succeeded in passing
army gunboats to Calumpit for the use
In Rio Grande: railway connections
: with that point secured this week; pas
sage of gunboats through Macabehe
country hailed with joyful demonstra :
ton by inhabitants.r.s, - - In coun-
try passed over by troops temporary
civil administration inaugurated and
protection to Inhabitants against iI :
surrection abuses given as far as pos
sible, Signs Of insurgent disintegra-
ton daily manifested. 20, Obstacles which
. natural features of country present
can be overcome, OTIS,
In reply to the cable OF the adjutant
general last night regarding return
Of volunteers, General Otis cabled this
morning: .~, t.r, .n,.. ...,i ,..'. ..,.
MANILA, May 11.-Adjutant Gen
eral, Washington: Volunteer organiza-
,tions first to return now at Negroes AMI
forty-five miles from Manila at front.
Expected that transports now arriving
will take returning volunteers. Volun :
teers understand they will begin tp
leave for the United States the latter
part of month; know importance .df
their presence here at this time an b
accept the sacrifice which the Uniteh
States interests make imperative.
Hancock now entering harbor. Trans =
ports returning this week carry sick
and wounded men. Pennsylvania and
st. Paul not needed longer in, south
ern. waters, where they have been rel
tanned, hence dispatch; transports Nel-
son and Cleveland brought freight; rd-
turn without cargo, ,.l.... ,..J,yl|
The Hancock which General Otis
reports entering the harbor sailed from
San Francisco April 49, carrying THE
Twenty-frst infantry and Light Bat
terry e, First artillery, thirty-nino of
ficers and 1,451 enlisted men, Colonel
Kline, Twenty-first infantry, com =
manding. A later dispatch from Gen.
oIl5 says! go 90. ''' '-f'''''' .''''''.
p. MANILA, May 11y-Adjutant Gener- :
all Washington. Health condition
troops, arrived on Hancock excellent;
two deaths enroute. Private Deio e.
Jones and Elmer. H. .Chevalier, com
panies L and; E, Twenty-first infaH try,
April "a and &c. OTIS.
.Ad Manila
WASHINGTON, May, - The cable )
from General Otis today were crafty
ing to the officials Of the war DEPART
ment. Portions of the dispatch re-
garding the situation were not made
public, relating it. is understood. to
prospective movements. The cable re :
garding the return of the volunteers
indicates that the troops are making
no clamor to be sent home, but see the
necessity of remaining until they can
be relieved of the regulars now on
the way and to be sent to Manila as
soon as they can be shipped. General
Otis says the troops to be sent first
are in the island of Negros and at the
front. This no doubt, means. the Calf
fornia regiment, which, is probably IN
Negroes. and it is known that the Ore
: gon regiment is with General Lawton
somewhere in the vicinity of Maasinr