Show FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES I What is t e strength of the Anton can army and navy in the Philippines asks a correspondent and how are the j1antrymen armed Admiral George Dewey has a powerful power-ful squadron there at present which is useful only in shelling the towns near the cat Few of the vessels can betaken be-taken into the rivers or channels his uaron is as follows Tile battleship Oregon The doubleturrete monitor lIonad nock and Monterey The protected cruises Baltimore Buffalo Olympia Boston and Charleston Charles-ton The gunboats Bennington Castine Concord Helen Petrel Princeton and Yorktown The late Spanish cruisers Don Juan de Austria and Isla de Cuba and the late SpanIsh gunboats Calao eulgon lain de Luzon Manila lIndana anti Lte the Solace Iris and rlonocacy On these ships there are 375 officers and about 4200 men I almost if not quite equals the English squadron In the Orient and i is fa superior to the fleets of any two other powers In Asiatic water IajIT General Otis has an ay hI the PhBppines of 25000 the size of OUr standing army before the war with Sin ThIs amy of conquest and Cc upaton consists of the First or Mac Arthurs divislQn operating north of the Pas1g river and the Second or Lawtons division south of the Palg I These dIvisions c01prise the following brigades First Whetns B fgadeTwbnly second infantry two batteries Twenty Second Oregon third Infantry Seond H G Otis bnigadewentielli Kan H brgewentel 05 First Montana four batteries Third artillery Tenth Pennsylvania Hales BrigadeFirst Nebraska irst Haes Colorado FIrst South Dakota FIrst Wyoming Hails BrigadeThird and Fourth infantry in-fantry Hals two battalions Seventeenth in faty nirninted squadron Fourth cay airy to light bateies Utah artillery nth Minncinala and the Thirteenth Minn0ata Second IngsBrgdene battalion battal-ion First California First Dakota First Washington Ovenshincs BrigaeFourteenth infantry I in-fantry First Idaho squadrn Fourth cavalry one battalion artillery U SAt I S-At IoloEighteeth infant First Tennensee one battalion SIxth artillery NegosTwo battalions First Cal fornia Cebune battalion Twentythird Infantry fantr CavlteTWO battalions CalifornIa CavieTvo heavy artillery First Wyoming battalion battal-ion FUtfrt Iowa ReinforQemeflts are 9J their way to Man11n ThC Ninth Infantry Is underway under-way on board the Zelandia and the Puebla the Hancock will sail soon with the Twentfrst infantry two other hips will bear fourteen batteries of light artier And a soon as the Ohio and the Senatdr recl San Francisco it is the intention i the war is not sonC ended to loa them with troops and dispatch them forthwith on the return re-turn trip to Manila This will give Otis a command of something like 30000 men all told b side the 4500 men in the navy As to the equipment of the infantry it is reported that the regular troops in the Philippines are armed with the new magazine rifle thirty caliber and have used smokeaess powder during the entire en-tire campagl The volunteers are equipped with tie old magazine rife of fortyfve caliber and have ben using the oldfahioned black powder until lent when suPPies of smokeless powder reached them I certainly seems that enough regulars regu-lars are reaching the seene oflacton to enable the YOlunteefto be muserd out as Son as the backbone of the in aurrection is broken |