The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-29
PitifuI Results of Otis Seven
Months Campaign.
~ SQUARE MILES OURS
WHILE LUzON ALONE CONTAINS
FULL $4,000.
ouTsIDETH slsLAND THE REVOLT GROWS
Those Negros Robbers" Foreigners Get
ting Concessions in Mindanao. Constant
Struggle Over Ra Iroad. Black Out
look For Next Campaign.

look For Next Campaign.
Chicago, H., Oct. 2S-The Tribune
prints summary Of the situation in the
Philippine Islands from its special cor
respondent there, Richard II. Little.
The letter which is dated Manila, Sep
temher 18th, says:
Here are some figures, made seven
momtlis and half after our campaign
against the Itilipinos began. Say it
is five miles to Angees-we hold pos
session of the railroad up to that point.
We cam fairly claim possession of the
land a half mile ON each side of the
track. We have possession of the wagon
road and, let us say, a half mile on
each side from San Fernando, through
BacoIoor TO Santa Rita, eight miles,
with four miles to Guaga. We have
road from MololoS, to Baliauag, eleven
miles northeast. We can claim eleven
square miles here.
eve have Manila out as far as the
water works. five miles away. That
gives us, say twenty-five miles around
the city.
"Then we have the road and half
mile each side down eighteen miles to
linus. Then we have Calamaba and
some other points ON the lake that Cen
cral Lawton captured before he was or
dered back. These towns are not APP
preached by road, but by boat across
the Laguna de Bay. and we only CON
troll the land they stand on.
Adding up our total possessions, we
find we have II SQUARE miles
1.-The Island of Luzon contains $4,000
square miles.
"Outside of Luzon the instruction
seems to be growing. The insurgents
hold ports in Mindanao, the next largest
island to Luzon in the Philippines and
said to be intellectually rich in gold
and silver mines, iron and copper ores
and other minerals, besides possessing
wonderful forests Of hard wood. No
Americans have dared venture there as
yet, as General Otis has sent no troops
to the island. Englishmen and Germans
are proving about the island getting
all the concessions they can. 1t is
said several prospecting parties are at
work.
General Otis reports conflicts be-
tween the 'robber bands and Ameri-
a.
Nineteenth. the Eighteenth and the
Sixth and one battalion of the Twenty
third infantry are now in these islands
fighting the robber bands, who dig
trenches and occupy towns and make
night attacks after the fashion of the
insurgents in Luzon.
"a late report from Cebu is that
some 1000 robbers were menacing our
forces and Il collision was imminent
'"The next campaign is going to be
different from the last We will get out
of the fiat, open country into noun
tains. thickly wooded country. If we
do not end the war here, we will have
to carry it into the high, rocky-ribbed
mountains of LuZon.
1T will be NO violation of State Sc
cret to say that the first object of the
next campaign will be to get the rest
of the railroad from the hands of the
insurgents. The insurgents ought to be
firmly convinced by this time that we
want the Manila and Dagupan Railroad,
as we have fought along that line
seven months. They know We want
it, and they also know that we are
going to get it. for they are already
tearing up the track, burning the ties
and burying the rails north of Angeles
1.-THE country east of the railroad,
north of Angeles to Dagupan is much
like it is south of Manila, except higher
and broken. West of the railroad are
high mountains that will offer the in
surgents better opportunity to retreat
and escape than they had in the low
country With the taking of the rail
road we viii have cut off the provinces
of Zambales, Paggasinan, Tarlac, and
Panpanga and Bataan, from the main
part of the island, and can lay claim
to good deal more country than the
precise amount of real estate on which
our army is now camping
From the railroad Aguinaldo's army
can hardly retreat anywhere but north
ward across the mountains to the fertile
valley Of the Rio Grande de Cagayary.
1.-THE walled city cannot understand
why the army has so much trouble
with the railroad. When the officers
in the field notify the walled city that
the rails have been torn up from the
section of track just capturd and that
the ties have been burned and the
grade destroyed they get an order to