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Show GENERAL OTIS' PLANS. How He Proposes to Wipe Out "General" -AgulDRldo's Army. Washington, March 28. It is understood under-stood here that General Otis has so far matured his plans of campaign that within a week or ten days he will be ible to beg-in a movement which is expected ex-pected to mark the destruction of Aguinaldo's army. Although stragglers strag-glers and fugitives may infest the Island Is-land of Luzon for some time, it is believed be-lieved that when Otis has delivered his next blow the insurgent army as an organization will have ceased to exist. The new movement, it is understood, will be by land and water, although it is not expected that the navy's part In the program will he particularly prominent, General Otis has procured thirteen of the gunboats formerly owned by the Spanish' government, and these are to play an important part in the development of the campaign. cam-paign. Many of the troops which had been engaged on the outer lines up to the date of General Lawton's arrival at Manila have been withdrawn to the water front, and a complete organization organiza-tion of the army is in progress. The reinforcements now arriving at Manila are being used to maintain the strength of the lines running from Manila to Pasig, established by Whea-ton's Whea-ton's flying brigade. The next movement move-ment that is expected here is to he by water. It is believed that Otis will place a complete brigade on board vessels, ves-sels, steam rapidly north ward and land them beyond the insurgent headquarters headquar-ters at Malolas. If this movement succeeds, suc-ceeds, as it should if made with rapidity, rapid-ity, the insurgent army will find itself completely penned in, with no opportunity oppor-tunity for retreat. To the north will be the flying brigade, to tho east La-guna La-guna de Bay, across which they will be prevented from escaping by the American gunboats now there; the Pasig river to the south is well policed by ironclads, and with a strong line in the position occupied by YVheaton's brigade will cut off any movement in that direction, while to the west the bay of Manila is closed by Dewey's vessels. ves-sels. It is hard to conceive how, if this plan carries, the insurgents can longer avoid a decisive conflict, which must end either in their breaking through the American lines or in their surrender. surren-der. It is evident that Otis expects the latter, for he has already advised the war department that the insurrection insurrec-tion cannot last much longer. |