Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — TO QUELL FILIPINOS. [ARTICLE]

TO QUELL FILIPINOS.

Fleet Will Blockade Luzon in Kffort to Knd Insurrection. The Navy Department is strengthening the United "States naval forces on the Asiatic station. Admiral Schley’s South American squadron, already small, will be still further depleted by the departure of the gunboat Wilmington from Montevideo In a few days. The Albany, now in the Mediterranean, is under orders to go to China nt once via the Sties Canal, and the gunboats Annapolis and the Vicksburg and the converted yacht Dorothea will leave American waters ns soon as they can be put in commission. The fleet under Admiral Remey will he still further augmented by the battleship Kentucky, which, with the other cruisers and gunboats now on the Asiatic station, will bring the strength of our naval force in Oriental waters up to a total of thirty-four vessels. This force is only exceeded by that of Great Britain. France, Germany, Japan, Russia and Austria all have smaller forces both as to number and strength, and should hostilities occur between the allies there is no danger that the United States will be overmatched at the outset. This fleet is being assembled ostensibly for the protection of American interests in Chinn and as a show of force to the other powers now involved in the Chinese imbroglio. But it is said in Washington that not all the vessels are to be stationed in Chinese waters. The real use for this fleet, it is cluimed, will be to blockade Luzon during the coming winter campaign and in bringing the war in the Philippines to a close.