The age-herald., 1900-07-16
SOLDIERS NEEDED D..1.7
 IN THE PHILIPPINES
100000 Troops Necessary to
 Establish Sovereignty 2f
FILIPIN0S ARE STUBBORN
Factor in General Young's Terri tory-Priest Led Insurgent ,f Forces in Battle

Manila, June 12.-"More soldiers" is the demand which is coming to General Mac Arthur from every department of the is- vindicate General Lawton's prediction that 100000 troops would be needed to establish American sovereignty oyer the Philippines. Until they attempted to hold provinces of two or three hundred thousand hostile peo- pie 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, only the com mercial ports are occupied. The Moros are a cloud on the horizon. The officers best acquainted with the condition in Mindano and the Sulu Islands tell the Associated Press correspondent that they consider serious fighting there inevitable. If 1t comes, the two regiments which are scat tered in small garrisons, some of them hundreds of miles apart along the coast of Mindanano, 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 cutting down soldiers who pass through with their terrible knives and spears.
 General Young, who is holding several of the most mountaneous provinces of Luzon With four regiments, expects severe work during the rainy season. For some two months after his bewildering invasion of the north in December, the insurgents were paralyzed, but finding ample oppor- tunities to reorganize they have availed themselves of it. li.sr
 The troops have worn themselves and horses down to the limit of endurance in marching about the mountain trails strik- ing the Filipinois 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 a new spot. General Tinio has nomadic command, whose war riors can hide their guns and become amigos if it suits their interests few of them wear uniforms and the people com bine to shield them from detection; thus the Americans are greatly handicapped.
 The Church Troublesome
 The church has become a troublesome factor in General Young's territory. Az npay, the priest who has proclaimed him. self archbishop of the Philippines, is in the field as general. His forces at tackled Captain Dodd of the Third Cavalry at Batoc, where more than two hundred Filpinos were slain. Aglpay commanded in person, and there is an improved report that he was among the killed. His fol- lowers fought with the recklesSness of Mo- hammedan fanatics.
 They approached the Americans in three lines, an advance guard of women arranged with the expectation that the Americans would not fire upon them, after the women a line of Boomen and others armed with wooden swords, no more dangerous than poicemen's clubs. and behind the Bolomen the riflemen Happily the women threw themselves flat upon the ground and sought shelter at the first fire so that few of them were injured.
 The soldiers thought they were men dressed in women's clothes. The onslaught of the Boomen was like the descent of the Mahdi's fanatics upon Kitchener's squad at Khartoum. They kept coming on faster than the soldiers could shoot them down until they were so close that our cavalry men had not time to fire and load, but went through them with clubbed carbines.
 General Young has evidence that the priests of the region have been sending church contributions to Aglipay. Two prominent priests are in jail charged with aiding the insurrection and will be tried by a military commission. Surveillance is exercised over the finances of some of the larger parishes Tinio and Aglipay are re- ported to be enemies of the conditions which will benefit the Americans. Some of the American generals think that the n- surrection could be materially crippled by the establishment of a St. Helena for the Filipino leaders, banishing them to some island where they could not give moral and financial support to the rebellion.