Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-06
IN THE PHILIPPINES
Discussing the war in the Philippines
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Discussing the war in the Philippines
the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat says:
American soldiers have been doing
some remarkably brilliant campaign
ing in the past six or seven months.
though the war in South Africa has
diverted the attention of the Uuited
States and the rest of the world from
these soldiers doings. The country
will be reminded of this fact by the re
ports of Gen. 5. b. VI. Young which
are being made public these days by
the war department. General young
at various times had parts of two
regiments of cavalry, one of which
was the Sd. that was stationed at JEFF
ferson barracks for years. and had
parts of five regiments of infantry, to-
gether with a battalion of Macabebe
scouts
Gen. Young's campaign began on
October IL, 1899, just about the time
that war in South Africa was started.
but the troubles in the latter quarter
diverted the country's attention from
the marching and fighting in the Philip
pines. For several months Young's
forces were busy in central and north
ern Luzon. and when they finished
their work no organized rebels We're
left in the field. YOung's cavalry were
in decidedly direct and emphatic de
gree. the "eyes of the army" in the
sense in which the cavalry of the Army
of the Potomac was made to be under
Sheridan in 1S64-5. 1t looted Agui-
naldo's forces, which were always
several times as strong as Young's
whole command. led in the attack upon
his positions. run down and captured
or scattered large portions of the rebels
and at one time made an entire circuit
of the armies of Aguinaldo and Mac
Arthur, with the latter of whom Young
was cooperating. At the end OF the
campaign Aguinaldo's forces We're en-
tirely dispersed, and he himself was
so far in the fastness of northern Lu-
zOn that none of his fighting men who
were subsequently captured. or who
surrendered themselves without being
hunted down, knew anything of his
whereabouts.
"Other officers. the late Gen. Lawton
being among the number conducted
campaigns which were fully as bril-
liant as Young's. but the attention of
the country has not yet been fairly
directed toward them. Many times
Aguinaldo was almost captured. and
many of his most prominent officers
were killed or taken prisoners. Hun
dreds of miles of territory occupied by
rebels were traversed. Moreover. the
climate was entirely new to the Amer
lean soldiers. and was the most diff
cult which they had ever experienced.
The food which they obtained was
necessarily insufficient, the roads were
probably the worst for military pur-
poses which could he found in any part
of the globe. and the physical impedi-
ments of various sorts which were met
and Overcame We're as formidable rs
were ever before met by any army.
I Notwithstanding all these adverse cir
cumstanceS the Americans gained an
uninterrupted series of victories from
a numerous, we'll managed and cOurag-
eous foe. and ut the end all semblance
of organized resistance was suppressed.
I The campaign which has been con
Quoted in the past few months by Gen
Otis and his gallant subordinates. Mac
1 Arthur. LawtOn. Young and others
was as brilliant and successful as any
which the military annals of any OF
/ the worlds great nations furnish