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Show mmmmmm CNTRAPPINO AOUINALDO, IrMptMent la I rsiral ! Sortfc- itsril v ilsnlU, Nov Heel of transport nd gitnljoal haa left ManIJa for the tuost Important expedition of the autumn campaign Ita designation Is ,urpoed lo I Dsgupaii or somi other northern point (lenrral Whealon commands, with a brigade consisting of the Thirteenth Inranlry.thrThirti third Infantry, two guns of the sixth artillery, and'two fallings. The transport Sherldon, Kranelseo de l.eve and Axtee carry the troops, wiih the gunboat Helena as escort. A dispatch boat was sent ahead to arrange a rendezvous with tho Untied Htatea cruiser I arleton, and to th warship that, are patrolling the northern north-ern coast of I ' m It la nsanmf I here lhal the purpose of the expedition Is to move down the Dagupan-Manlla railroad toward Tar-lae, Tar-lae, In order to prevent Aaiilnaldoa force from making another base farther north. Dagupan ami Apparrt are the strongholds of tho Insurgents In the north It lias been the unanimous opinion ol military experts that Dagupan should lie made a Use of operatloua, but auf flclent troop have heretofore been larking Mllhbeiicrat Whealon, Mae-Arthur Mae-Arthur and I anion moving on Tartae from Ihrre direction, and the mountain moun-tain Iicmnilng in the other aide, the Insurgent capital will aoon become ' untenable AgulnaM i mav attempt to shift hta headquarter to the rieh tobaceo country coun-try at the northern end of the Island It will he clllll nit for the Insurgents lo escape Hhouhl the lictluled operations succeed, suc-ceed, nrganitt I insurrection on a large ecsle should lie at an end carl) next spring allhuugli guerrilla warfare Is likely to continue ftirn long time No one anllelstes that the Insurgents will make many hanlbnltlea. |