The flame of insurrection has broken out in the Philippines
once more, and though its immediate seat is the island of Samar, there are risings in Luzon also, and a new leader who, it is said, has much of the popularity of Aguinaldo. No explanation is offered of the new movement, but the local Government has ordered camps of concentration to be formed, and has threatened all who do not submit by a fixed date with banishment and confiscation. The Americans have a powerful force in the islands, numbering some forty thousand men, and their total army has been raised to eighty- seven thousand, splendidly provided with artillery, but the dragging character of the war is fretting the Americans just as the protraction of the South African War is fretting us. Both peoples will go on to the end, and both, we suspect, before they succeed will have to learn new ressons in mobility. An Englishman can move as fast as a Boer, and an American as quick as a Filipino, but neither of them as yet knows how.
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