The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-15
SLAUGHTER IN SIAM.
Women and Children Killed for n
Kings Pleasure.
From an Exchange.

From an Exchange.
The uuspeakable Turk must look to his
laurels, for the events which have taken
place this month in Battambong prove that
the Siamese are running ham close. on
account of the Cambonan mountaineers
refusing to submit any longer to the OPP
preston of Siamese officials and to pay
the cardamon tribute, the governor of Bat
tambong organized an expedition against
them. 1t is clear that he did not do so on
his own responsibility, for the taxes which
he meant to collect from them were to go
into the King of Slams Golfers The latest
dispatch of a correspondent reads as fol.
lows:
After the failure of the first expedition,
the Governor, acting under instructions
from the Siamese government, prepared a
second expedition He collected the most
reckless and abandoned characters of the
district, and putting himself at their head,
marched rapidly and with as much secrecy
as possible on the Cambonian encampment.
The insurgents occupied a strong position,
but with the usual carelessness OF their
race, they were preparing their food when
the Siamese arrived and there was no
one on guard Many of the able-bodled
men were absent, trying to bring down
some game which might supply their
scanty commissariat for the day, and the
greater numbered those In camp were wo-
men, children and youths. Among the lot
there were only six or seven who had
guns; the rest were unarmed When the
Governor of Battambong and his 800 cut
Threats surprised the camp there was
hardly any attempt at resistance. A gal
liant Cambonian had killed two Siamese
who had attacked a girl, but he was i'm
mediately cut down, and no one else made
any resistance Then began one of the
most frightful butcherles OF modern times.
The Governor and his valient 800 threw
themselves on the women and children
and cut them down with savage ferocity
THE Siamese ramrhed the muzzles of
their guns down the Women's threats and
then discharged them; they tore the chill
dren from their mothers arms and tossed
them or their bayonets; they pursued the
little ones into the huts and pierced them
through the straw beneath which they at
tempted to hide.
Two of the Cambonian leaders were
captured alive, and after being treated
with fiendish cruelty they were decapitat-
ed and their heads stuck on pixies which
were planted on the ground among the
quiveriug mass of severed limbs and mu-
tiiated trunks which had a few moments
before been human beings. After accom-
plishing this good days work the Gov
ernor and his accomplices had a big ca
rouse.
THE war is now at an end; a warlike
and independent people have been Rracti-
cally exterminated; the remnant have fed
over the frontier into French territory;
but the main object of the expedition has
not been collected, and 1t never shall be,
for the country is now a desert. If the
King wants money for his harem or for
his advisers he must look elsewhere; his
faithful subjects on the hills of Cambodia
have gone to a better world
A correspondent who has Travelled
through the country which has been the
theater of these Siamese butcheries de-
clares that what was once rich district
is now practically a desert. All the viii
lagos in the hills are Abandoned some of
them have been sacked and the inhabi-
tants murdered: and no living thing has
been left in a wide area save the dogs
and some of the domestic animals of the
inhabitants. These Siamese have shown
no mercy to man, woman or child all
throughout this bloody business; they de-
termined on slaughtering every Cambodi-
an they met, and they have succeeded a
merveille.