The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-16

Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
Manila. June 12.-"More soldiers" is
the demand which is coming to Gen
eral Macarthur from every department
of the islands. Recent events have
worked to vindicate General Lawton's
judgment that 100000 troops would be
needed to establish American sover-
eighty over the Philippines.
Until they attempted to hold prov
inces of 900 or 100000 hostile people
with a regiment or two the American
commanders hardly realized the size
of the Philippine islands. The present
force is not large enough to garrison
more than half the important towns
and in some most important islands,
among them the Cebu, Pauay, Samar,
Beyte and the great Mohammedan en-
pire of Mindanao, only the commercial
ports are occupied
Serious Fighting Inevitable.
The MorOs are a cloud on the hori-
zon- The officers best acquainted with
conditions in Mindanao and the Sulu
islands tell the Associated Press CORE
spondent that they consider serious
fighting there inevitable. If it comes,
the two regiments which are scattered
in small garrisons, some of them hun
of Mindapao, an island nearly as large
as Luzon. may have serious work. The
MoroS are fighters by nature, do not
fear death. have many guns. though of
Anticipated makes but do the best eX-
ecutiOn by lying in the thick jungles
and cutting down soldiers who pass
through with their terrible krises and
spears.
General Young, who S holding seven
of the innrIC r1rOUinRPc n
Luzon with four regiments expects Sc
we're work during the rainy season. For
two months, after his bewildering in
vasion of the north in December, the
insurgents were paralyZed. With few
of the troops to keep an eye on the
villages and prevent RECOMMENDATION.
the paralysis, the general believes,
might have been made permanent.
Finding ample opportunities to re-
organize, the insurgents have awaited
themselves thereof.
Troops Worn Out.
Young's troops have worn themselves
and their horses down to the limit of
endurance in marching about the noun
tain trails. striking the Filipinos wher-
ever they could get the track of an
organized band. Hundreds have been
slain, but much of the work has been
like brushing away mosquitoes, which
swarm down upon a new spot.
General Tinio has a nomadic com
mand whose warriors can hide their
guns and become amigos" if it suits
their interests. AS few of them wear
uniforms and the people combine to
shield them from detection, the Amer
leans are greatly handicapped.
The church has become a trouble
some factor in Young's territory. AgIi-
pay, the priest who has proclaimed
himself archbishop of the Philippines
and accommodated Archbishop No
zaleda, is in the fed as a general. His
forces attacked CAPTAIN DOdd of the
Third cavalry at Batoc, when more
than 200 FilioinOS We're slain. AgliDay
commanded in person and there was
an unprOven report that he was among
the killed. His followers fought with
the recklessness of Mohammedan IA
natics.
They approached the Americans in
three lines. an advance guard of wo-
men, arranged with the expectation
that the Americans would not fire upon
them: after the women a line of bolO-
men and others armed only with wood
ed swords no more dangerous than pO-
licemen's clubs: behind the bolomen
came the rihemen
Happily the women threw themselves
fiat upon the ground and sought shell
ter at the first fire, so that few of
them were injured The soldiers
thought they We're men disguised in
wOmen's clothes. The onslaught of the
bolOmen was like the descent of the
MahdiS fanatics upon Kitchener'S
square at KhartOum. They kept COM
ing on faster than the soldiers could
shoot them down. until they were so
close that our cavalrymen had not time
to fire and load, but went through
them with dubbed carbines.