Show CAP APT ALLEN PRAISES t i THE CONSTABULARY l Asks for Men AIen and Submits Estimate Placing I f ing Annual Cost at mt Feb 18 The The War Ware e has made public a report of apt Henry T T. Allen Sixth cavalry ateS i td Manila December concern- concern constabulary of I 1 the he Philippine Capt Allen says the he 1 Is chief consisted of 2500 men and arable Wable to control without the aid of ot of Abra provinces oops s the Son mon Lepanto Nueva Vis- Vis iya Principe and Infanta to the date of the report there haden had haden haden two men lost from the force en en only a desertion a showing attributed toe to men 1 e care in the selection of the has that experience ap apt Allen says constable of single n Il that the cost a 1 does not exceed gold one if rne year Ameran Amer- Amer h hUe hile Ie the cost of maintaining an an soldier ordinarily Is reckoned at 1000 Capt Allen states that in chasing down the robber bands the constabulary constabulary constabulary con con- unquestionably is more efficient effi em- cl dent nt than the American troops Capt Allen says that the general condition condition condition con con- of the islands as regards pacification pacifica pacifica- tion have never been so favorable as now now when the crumbling from the top is duly manifest In his opinion the campaign in progress in and Laguna will be the coup de grace of the insurrection In a recapitulation of the work of the constabulary for a little over four our months it is shown that in fifteen engagements eng engagements en en- twenty outlaws have b been en g killed twenty wounded and cap cap cap- Capt apt Allen believes that the present nt force of 2500 men in the constabulary should be doubled and submits an estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate for the maintenance of such a force including subsistence transportation tion quarters and equipage of a year |