in the Philippines is being hurried, though there has been and is likely to be no call for volunteers as such. The regular re-cruising stations are adding a thousand men week to the army and the additions thus made will doubtless be sufficient for all purposes. It is planned to bring American forces in the Philippines up to at least forty thousand which is expected to give an effective force of thirty thousand at least. Some of the officers who have returned from the Philippines advise that as many as one hundred thousand men are needed to enforce and maintain order, but the admini tration is inclined to accept General Otis's estimate.
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