Show lEIS A CONCENTRATING Preparing or Operations I the Thick Jungle Manila Feb 18The heat Is fanla very oppressive op-pressive today and the troops especially those who are compelled to work In the open have been affected It will probably g bira enmltg gp bo warmer from ROW on until the rainy season The rebels have been concen rating south of the Pasig river in front I of Brigadier General Overshines lines lnes on the right l day long The country in tho vicinity is a particularly I thick jungle extending for miles The scouts report that tho rebels are apparently com log from La Guna and Cavite provinces The Americans are strongly entrenched from the beach to the Pasig Progres of the Grant Perim Feb 18The United States transport Grant having on board Major General Lawton and staff the Fourth In fantry and a battalion of the Seventeenth infantry is coaling here The Grant nl New York on Jan 19 and is bound for Manila Penn Is an island = isl-and in the straits of Babel3Iandcb at I the entrance of the Red sea Filipinos Will Pass On Chicago Feb ISE R Deries and l Rivera who came to this country from the Philippine islands to join Affonclllo at Washington passed through Chicago today for Montreal The two travelers say they intend to continue the r around tho world and agitate the insurg ants cause in the European countries and wherever they can obtain a bearing P Sl |