Show SITUATION IN LUZON I 4 II Figures Showing Our Total Possessions Pos-sessions On the Islands i t I ALL THAT WE + CAN CLAM I 1 ONLY 117 SQUARE MILES OUT OF 42000 f Seven and Onehalf Months After the Campaign Against the Filipinos Filipin-os Opened the Headway Made By Gen Otis Is Sufficient to Startle the American People 4 Chicago Oct 28The Tribune today prints a summar of the situation in the Philippine islands from its special correspondent there Richard H Little 1 The letter which is dated Manila Sept 14 says Here are some figures made seven montns and a half after our campaign 1 against the Filipinos began Say it is fiftyone miles to Angeles w hold II possession of the railroad up to that point We can fairly claim possession of the land a halfmile on each side vf the track We have possession of the wagon road and let us Gay a halfmile on each side from San Fernando Fer-nando through Bacolor to Santa Rita I eght miles with four miles to Guaga 4 + + + + 4 f + + + + + + + + + ± + 4 + + + + + + 4 + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4 4 = Lz + BRINGING ITT A WOUNDED FILIPINO + 1 + + + + + + + 4 We havea roadtrom Malolos to Balia lag eleven miles northeast We can < lann eleven square miles here We have Manila out as far as the waterworks five miles away That gives us say entvfive miles around the city I Then we have tho road and a half I mile each side down eighteen miles to Imus Then we have Calamba and some other points on the lake that General Lawton captured before he was ordered bacc Those towns are not approached by road but by boat across the Laguna de Bay and we only control the land they stand on Adding up our total possessions we find we have 117 square miles The inland of Luzon contains 42000 square miles Insurrection Is Growing Outside of Luzon the irsurrection Etrms to be growing The insurgents hold ports in Mindanao the next largest lar-gest island to Luzon in the Philippines and are eaid to be incalculably rich in gold and silver mines iron and cooper ores coal and other minerals besides possessing wonderful forests of hardwood hard-wood No Americans have dared to venture there as yet as General Otis has Pent no troops to the Island Englishmen Eng-lishmen and Germans are prowling about the island getting all the concessions con-cessions they can It is said several prospecting parties are at work 0 General Otis reports conflicts between be-tween the robber bands and American Ameri-can soldiers in Negros and Cebu The Nineteenth the Eighteenth the Sixth and one battalion of the Twentythird infantry are now in those two islands lighting the robber bands who dig trenches and occupy towns and make J night attacks after the fashion of the Insurgents in Luzon A late report from Cebu is that some 2000 robbers were menacing our forces and a collision col-lision was imminent The next campaign is going to bo different fm the last We will get out of the Hat open country into mountainous moun-tainous thickly wooded country If vc do not end the war here we will have to carry it into the high rocky mountains of Luzon Object of Next Campaign It will be no violation of a state secret to say that tne first object oft of-t next campaign will be to take the rtc t of the railroad from the hands of thfe insurgents The insurgents ought to be firmly convinced by this time that we want the Manila Dagupan road as we have fought along that line seven months They know we want it and they also know that we are going to get it for they are already tearing up the track burning the ties and burying the rails north of Argeles The country east of the railroad north of Angeles to Dagupan is much like it is south of Manila except higher nnd more broken West of the railroad are high mountains that will offer the insurgents better opportunity of retreat re-treat and escape than they had in the l low country With the taking of the railroad we will have cut off the provinces t prov-inces of Zambaies Paggasinan Tarlac < and Pan Panga and Bataan from the main part of the Island and can lay claim to a good deal more country than c the precise amount of real estate on iii which our army is now consisting The Walled City The walled city cannot understand ri why the armyhas so much trouble with i the railroad When the officers in the ff field notify the walled city that the rills have been torn up from the section it > sec-tion of track just captured and that the ties have been burned and the grade destroyed they get an order to t fix it So after a few miles of railroad I t rail-road are captured the soldiers have to scatter up and down the track and go mining for steel rails I The insurgents bury the rails five or six feet deep They observed that the t Americans located the rails by sounding sound-ing with a crowbar so they resorted to the expedient of putting a layer of ties over the rails To replace the burned ties the quartermasters department was forced to use planks two boards I each two inches wide being nailed together to-gether for ties The sidetrack wher I I J ever possible all the way back to Manila Ma-nila was jerked up carried north and put down where the rails could not be found v I Need Light Draft Boats Another great need of the army is light draft steamboats for use on the many rivers and lakes of Luzon There Is harJly a place in the world where an army could use river steamers to greater advantage The Rio Grande the Chico the Rio Grande Pampanea the Agno the Bicol and the Pasig all flow < through fertile and densely populated popu-lated valleys and i5ffer means to the army of bringing up aupplies and swiftly swift-ly transporting big bodies of soldiers that would be invaluable were it utilized From what can be learned from the I insurgents they are well satisfied with the present conditipn of affairs Their congress has JUES returned a communication communi-cation to the American peace commission commis-sion declaring that while they would have accepted autonomy from our government I gov-ernment if they had been properly dealt with at first they will now consider con-sider no proposition except independents independ-ents entsWith almost 42000 miles of territory from which to draw supplies and with boats coming in without any opposition from Hongkong Japan and from Central Cen-tral and South America and Australia the insurgents probably are doing well as far as supplies are concerned |