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Show TROOPS TO COME HOME. Soldiers Who Have Been in the Philippines Phil-ippines Two Years. New York, March 8. A special to the i Herald from Washington says: By direction di-rection of Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn instructions have been sent to Major General Otis to return to the United States sometime in May one battalion each of the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry. The withdrawal of these troops was recommended by Major General Miles several months ago. He pointed out to the department that the three regiments regi-ments designated would have been two years in the Philippines in June next. There is no doubt that the decision of the department to withdraw three battalions, which number more than 1,200 men, is influenced to some extent by the disorganization of the rebel army and the prospect that the American Amer-ican troops l'ill no longer meet with resistance from an organized force. Notwithstanding the action of the department in ordering home these battalions, officers who have served in the Philippines and who have just returned, re-turned, say that this must not be taken to mean that the rebellion has been suppressed. The insurgents are operating operat-ing in small forces, which scatter upon the approach of American troops, but which reassemble and attack whenever a good opportunity presents itself. A well known officer in Luzon, writing writ-ing to a friend in this city gives it as his opinion that the rebellion will not be entirely suppressed in less than ten years. |