, 1899-03-03
MORE TROOPS GOING.
SIX MORE REGIMENTS OF REGU-
LARS ORDERED TO
MANILA.
Going by Way of San FranciscO-VOl-
unteers Will Probably be Sent
Home at Once Unless Affairs Get
Worse-Light Gunboats in Great
Demand.

actions.
Many companies of the insurgents
have retired because their officers skulk
and won't lead their men.
One hundred Filipoinos ran forward
toward the American lines one day re-
Gently shouting, 1--WE don't want to
fight. Viva A~mericanos."
Aguinaldo refuses to liberate the
priests unless they give up their land
ed estates.
The st. Paul has left for Negros, tax
ing the native commissioners. The
commissioners were delighted with
their reception at Manila.
The latest news from Cuba from Ce-
bu is good. The natives are returning
to town.
The influential natives of the isl
ands of Mobate and Ticao request Cen
eral Otis to send troops there. They
say that two hundred men could easily
subdue the rebels.
III al dlt ptdCtdDlt, lUtN
are disguised with the extortions of
three successive governors. 1t is rum
ored here that a steamer with 1000
stands of arms and ammunition. which
was bound for the Philippines, has been
seized by the Japanese authorities in
japanese waters.
Washington, March 2.-The secretary
of war has just ordered the reinforce
ment of General Otis by six regiments.
These are the Sixth infantry, now at
San Antonio; the Sixth artillery. scat
tered along the Atlantic coast stations;
the Ninth infantry at Madison bar
racks; the Thirteenth infantry, in New
York state; the Twenty-first infantry.
at Plattsburg, N. Y, and the Sixteenth
infantry at Fort Cook and n%eighboring
posts in the middle west.
These regiments have been ordered to
make ready to proceed to San Fran
cisco and thence to Manila.
In answer to the direct question as
to whether or not these regular troops
are intended to relieve a correspond
ing number of volunteer soldiers at Ma
Mia, it was said at the war department
that while this probably would be the
case, it was not possible yet to make a
positive statement.
This means that if the reinforce
ments arrive at Manila, the conditions
are satisfactory. the volunteers will be
brought home; but if General Otis shall
have need for all of the combined force
then they must wait.
The reinforcements are made up of
troops who are not only regulars in
the full sense of the term, but who have
been through the Cuban and Porto Ri
car campaigns. They know what it is
to be under fire; how TO hunt Indians
and also how to fight in tropical jun
giles. With them replacing the same
number of volunteers, General Otis will
have a majority or regulars in his COM
mand, something the war department
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