The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-01
Ami Answer THAT Should
Satisfy the Twentieth's
Few Knockers
LIEUT.. CALLAHAN ANDOTHERS
Given Something to Think
Over. River Swimming a
Facts About GuIgu-
into.
From Kansas City Star:

From Kansas City Star
San Francisco, Nov. 23-General
Frederick Funston will sail for Manila
this afternoon on the transport Ind
lana and with him will go his aide,
Lieutenant Mitchell. Captain will
liam Watson. formerly Of the Twen-
tieth Kansas regiment, who has been
attached to the Fortieth infantry,
will sail to-day on the transport Ohio.
General Funston gave out state
ment to-day to a correspondent for the
Star regarding Lieutenant Callahan
of Company G.. A few days ago Cal
lahan declared in an interview that
Metcalt took little If any part in the
battle of Guiguinto, where he won
his brevet, and that Funston wss
hiding mnch of the time during the
action.
FUNsToN's RESPECTS TO CALLAHAN.
callahan missed nearly all the
fighting ia which tho regiment took
part" said General Funston this af-
ternoon, "He sustained slight flesh
wound in the thigh from glancing
bullet while he Law behind shelter in
the trenches at CaloOcan. He went
back to the hospital ut Manila and
stayed there more than month,
then returned to the regiment late in
March, just before the advance upon
Malolos. We had six days OF con-
tinuous fighting there, but Callahan
went back to Manila after the second
days fight and said he had kidney
trouble. He stayed in Manila for
three months.
callahan says he was in the battle
of GuiquintO. He wac thirty miles
from there. At no time at the battle
of Guiquinto did | lie down except
once, and that was for ten seconds
under especially furious fire from the
enemy. Then / was careful to see
that every other officer and man was
under cover before dropped.
Hardy Drysdale and Wiley did
swim the Marilso river and never
claimed credit for it.
"Callahan's statement as to the
Rio GrAnGe affair il absurd. White
and Trembly did SWIM the river and
hitched the rope by which the raft
WAS handled. / crossed with eight
men first, and in all forty five men
were taken over. We drove out 800
insurgents, using 200 rounds of am.
munition to a man during the half
hours fig hting. General MacA rthur
and General Wheaton were eye wit
nesses to that fight. They were
standing at a freight house 500 yards
away on the south side of the river.
1t was u pom their report of that affair
that was made brigadier general
Bass of the New York Herald, and
McCutt heOn OF the Chicago Record,
oabled the stories of the engagement.
cat Bagbag river Lieutenant Bali,
myself and four enlisted men swan
the river under fierce fire and we
took the intrenchments. General
Wheaton saw that and everylman
who took part was recommended for
medal OF honor.
~ defy anyone Go prove that L have
ever used money or any other means
to in fiuence any newspaper man to
advertise me. have never had one
in my employ, either directly or in
directly. The newspaper correspon
dents in the Philippines were men o
honesty and great personal courage
Bass, Creelman, MoCutcheon, Frank
lin, Brooks, Jones, Keene and many
others took as many risks az an.
soldier on the firing line. Genera
Mac Arthur had great trouble in try
ing to keep them back.
"But am not through with thi
affair yet. know the charges agains
Metcalf and Bishop are despicabl
aud malicious lies. Aud | intend
prove them such.
81 carry back with me to Manil
Il copy of Donald Thorn's affidavit
which he accuses Captain Bishop
emptying his revolver into the bodi'
oftwo wounded Filipinos. He say
this occurred lin the rear of II Con
pany. Now H. Company occupie
the center of the line on February i
at the battle of CalOOcan and Bsht
was never near there at all. He VIZ
with Company at the extreme rigi
of the line.