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Show REBELLION MUST END. From Now On Aggressive Tactics Will be Pursued in the Philippines. Washington, May 6. The war department de-partment is satisfied from the dispatches dis-patches received from General ,Otis that the American commander has put aside the insurgent temporizing and has turned his attention to most aggressive ag-gressive tactics. The wisdom of this course was fully approved by officials here, who have foreseen that the rebels reb-els needed further chastisement in order or-der to bring them to a realization of their position. General Lawton's movement northward north-ward to Maasin is designed to keep a body of American troops to the north of the rebels and between them and their line of retreat in the mountains. A successful execution of this movement move-ment will .leave the insurgents well surrounded to the north, though there is a stretch of about seven miles to the Rio Grande river, along which the rebels are retiring. If the rebels do succeed in getting into the mountains, war department officials believe they cannot continue organized resistance, as the mountain localities furnish much less opportunity for sustenance than the rice lands along the foothills and bottoms. The authorities here are all satisfied with the manner in which our forces are placed. |