Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25
IN LUzON.
The PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ARE
NOT YET SUBDUED,
LARGE ARMY WANTED.
Every Department Of the Island
Ask for More Soldlers.-LiveIy
Fighting With the FIlibinos.

Manila, July 2O-'More soldiers is
the demand which is coming to General
Macarthur from every department in
the islands. General Lawtons judg-
ment that 100000 troops would be need
ed to establish American sovereignty
over the Philippines, has been vindi-
sated by recent events. Until they at
tempted to hold provinces of 20O,O0 or
100000 hostile people with regiment
or two, the American commanders
hardly realized the size of the Philip
pine islands. The present force is not
large enough to garrison more than
half the important towns, and in some
Of the most important islands-among
them Cebu, Panay, Samar, Leyte and
the great Mohammedan empire of Mni-
danao-only the commercial ports are
occupied.
MOROS FIGHTERS BY NATURE.
The Moros are a cloud on the hori-
BON. The officers best acquainted with
conditions in Mindanao and the Sulu
Islands say that they consider serious
lighting there inevitable. If 1t comes
the two regiments which are scattered
In small garrisons some of them hum
dreds of miles apart along the coast of
Mindanao, an island nearly as large
as Luzon, may have serious work The
Moros are fighters by nature do not
lear death, have many guns. though of
antiquated makes but do the best ex-
ecution by lying in the thick jungles
and cutting down soldiers who pass
through with their terrible knives and
spears.
General Young, who is holding seven
Of tn "tainous provinces Of
Luzon with four regiments, expects
severe work during the rainy season.
For some two months after his bewil-
dering invasion of the north in De-
rember the insurgents were paralyzed.
With more troops to keep an eye on the
villages and prevent recommendation.
the paralysis. the general believes.
might have been made permanent.
INSURGENTS ARE ORGANIZING.
Finding ample opportunities to reor-
ganize, the insurgents have availed
themselves thereof. Young's troops
have worn themselves and horses down
to the limit of endurance in marching
about the mountain trails, striking the
Filipinos where they could get 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 command.
whose war.-ors can hide their guns and
become amigos if it suits their in
terests. AS few of them wear uniforms
and the people combine to shield them
from detection, the Americans are
greatly handicapped.
The church has become troublesome
factor in Young's territory. Aglipay,
the priest who proclaimed himself as
archbishop of the Philippines and ex-
communicated Archbishop Nosealeda,
Is in the field as a general. His forces
attacked Captain Dodd of the Third
cavalry at Batoc, where more than 200
Eilipinos were slain. Aglipay COM
manded i'm person and there is an un-
proven report that he was among the
killed His followers fought with the
recklessness of Mohammedan fanatics.
ADVANCE GUARD OF WOMEN.
They approached the Americans in
three lines. Ad advance guard of wo-
men was arranged with the expecta-
ton that the Americans would not fire
upon them. After the women line of
bolomen and others armed only with
wooden swords. no more dangerous
than policemen's clubs, and behind the
bolomen the riflemen. Happily the
women threw themselves fiat on the
ground and sought shelter at the first
Hre, so that few of them were injured.
The soldiers thought they were men
dressed in women's clothes. The on
Taught of the bolomen was like the
descent of the mahdi's fanatics upon
Kitchener's squad at Khartoum. They
kept coming on faster than the soldiers
eould 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.