The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-16
MORE SOLDIERS NEEDED
sUBJUGATIoN OF THE PHILIPPINES
WILL REQUIRE 100000 SOL
Oilers AT LEAST
M1NDANAo SETS A HARD JOB
Only the Commercial Ports an Yet
GarrlsOned by American Troops,
and Trouble La Looked
for There.

correspondents OIL LIS <ASSOCtdleQ Tess.
MANILA, July 12.-"More soldiers'' ia
the demand which Is coming to Gen.
Macarthur from every department Of ths
islands. Recent events have worked TO
vindicate Gen. Lawton's Judgment that
100000 troops would be needed to estab-
lish American sovereignty over the Phil
ippines. Until they attempted to hold
provinces of 100000 and 100000 hostile peo-
pie with a regiment or two, the Amert-
can 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 Of the most important islands,
among them Cebu, Panay, Samar, Leyte
and the great Mohammedan empire of
Mindanao. only the commercial ports
are occupied. The Moros are a cloud on
the horizon. The officers best acquainted
with conditions in Mindanao and the
Sulu islands tell the Associated Press
correspondent that they consider serious
fighting there inevitable. II it comes
the two regiments which are scattered
In small garrisons, some of them hun
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 fear
death, have many guns, though OF anti
quated makes, but do the best execution
by lying in the thick jungles, and cut
ting down soldiers who pass through
with terrible knives and spears.
Gen. Young, who Is holding seven Of
the most mountainous provinces Of Luz
zon. with four regiments, expects severe
work during the rainy season. For some
two months after his bewildering inva-
sion Of the north, in December, the In
surgents were paralyzed. With a few
troops to guard the villages and prevent
Recommendation, the paralysis, the gem
eral believes, would have been made per-
manent. Finding ample opportunities to
reorganize, the insurgents have awaited
themselves thereof. Many troops have
worn themselves and their horses down
to the limit Of endurance in marching
about the mountain trails, striking the
Fiipinos wherever 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 new SPOT,
Gen. T1nio has q nomadic command
whose warriors can hide their guns and
become amigos" If 1t suits their inter
ests. AS few of them wear uniforms, and
the people combine to shield them from
NSt0SIAOA1B t4IS <AIA1CtlConS are SfedLlY
handicapped.
The church has become a troublesome
factor In Gen. Young's territory. Aglipay,
priest who has proclaimed himself as
archbishop of the Philippines, and ex-
communicated Archbishop Nosealeda. is
In the field as general. His forces at
tackled Capt Dodd, of the Third cavalry,
at Batoc, where more than 200 Filipinos
were slain. Aglipay commanded in per-
there 10 an
that he was among the killed His fol-
lowers fought with the recklessness Of
Mohammedan fanatics They approach
ed the Americans in three lines The ad-
vance guard was made up of women ar
ranged with the expectation that the
Americans would not fire upon them.
After the women came a line Of bolo
men and others armed only with wooden
swords, no more dangerous than police
mems clubs, and behind the bolo men
the rffemen. Happily the women threw
themselves fiat upon the ground and
sought shelter at the first fire. SO that
few Of them were injured
Inc soldiers thought they were men
dressed in women's clothes. The on
slaught Of the bolo men was like the
descent Of the Mahdfs fanatics upon
Kitchener's squad at Khartoum They
Kept corning on faster than the soldiers
could shoot them down, until they were
SO close that the cavalrymen had not
time to fire and load, but went through
with dubbed carbines.
Gen. Young has evidence that the
priests of the region have been sending
church contributions to Aglipaya. Two
prominent priests are in Jail charged
with aiding the instruction and will be
tried by military commission. Some of
the American generals think that the In
surrection could be materially crippled
by the establishment of st. Helena for
the Filipino leaders, banishing them to
some island where they could not give
moral and financial support to the re-
belIion.
Guam is advocated as a possible and
advantageous residence for captured Of
ficers and civil officials.
Archbishop Chappelle is a supporter Of
the idea. He believes the policy of len
iency is wasted upon Asiatlcs, who fail