Graham guardian., 1899-09-29

"gugus" go to their long homes.
The guards would do the halting
many times after they had shot
them. That was the only way to
do them, for if the guard halted
them, they would dodge and run
away and the guard couldn't hit
them, 80 by shooting them first II
was easier hating them.
Every now and then they arrest
some of AguinaIdo's officers right
here in town. The natives have
been schemeing to uprise in the
city every since the outbreak.
They tried the experiment two or
three times. About three hundred
of them tried it in the Tendo dis
trict one night; the soldiers killed
most all of them. Look on the
| map and yon will see the different
districts. The Tondo district was
completely destroyed by fire. II
started about ten o'clock at night.
/ was at work on the other side OF
the river and for about two hours
we had to dodge bullets. 1t hap
pened that we had a big pile of
coal to get behind and peep over
and "see everything we looked
att. The bullets came spat, spat
| all around us, but of course they
Icouldn't hit us when we were peep
ing over the coal; they didn't any.
way.
There have been quite y number
of fires started by the "gagus', but
they have always got the worst Of
lit. (Gugus is what the soldiers
call the natives. Sometimes they
call them niggers.)
The insurgents always fight be-
hind the best made intrenchnents
In the world, so acknowledged by
lall the foreign military men that
have examined them. A greet
many are actually bomb proof, so
the only way TO get the "gugus''
out is to charge them, and often
times when our boys are ready to-
make the charge orders will come
to lie down and the "gngus" shoot
ing at them, every now and then,
picking. off one of our boys, but
when our boys do charge they get
there, and although some of them.
may fall they don't stop that is,
what puts terror to the souls of the
Filipinos. If. there are, any
"gugus" left in the trenches when
our boys get there, it ,sr good by
"gugus"; they don't waste aay am
munition ON them, they, Just go at
them with the butts of their guns
and burst their heads open. Oar
boys have a chance sometimes to
kill two ortbree, and yoa bet they,
improve the opportunity. Bat in
all that our boys have kIHed', don't
amount to anything as there are
about ten ''gugus" to one gna aud
when one ''gagu" is killed. there.
is one to grab hiss gun aadn run.
Another thingStheia trenches are,
constructed with underground
trenches eonaiDg out in seme thick
ct so they can escape so. cur boys
can't see Them They have been
years busAipgIbeir trenabes and,
in many places they improved
them with railroad irep,, They
build thems in sach a waY,that it is
q hard matter to flank them, SO
charging is the only way.
Another thing to the great dis.
advantages of cur volunteers was,
that they. were armed with Spring
field rifles, The Springfield is a
good gun at it's range OF about 500
yards. When they hit "gngp"
4 puts him, as the soldiers say, ON
the 'sbum." The insurgents
are an med with Mausers,
ers, a long ranged gun. Their
range Is about 1900 yards, AL
though,they are poor shots they
pick off man now and then. aud
our boys can't reach, them.l The
regulars are armed with, Hrag's.
1t appeared thas the volun
teers .hampersd in every, way
until they became completely, dis
couraged, then they wanted,to,, go
home.
Uncle Sam has the best soldiers
in the world although. there, are
a great many uDprincipaled, ones
among them, and there are a. great
many good honest men, but Ear
fighting they beat the world.
Up to this date, the insurgents
have not gained one point nor the
smallest part, of a, point. TcA h'
sure they have. captared a. faw
Americans, but they were, atrag
Eglers that were out where they
had no business. L., myself. th,
day after the, insurgents wert
driven from here to ,CaloocAn, wen,
out there and traveled arorad fo'
four or fiys hours looking al th
dead "gIgus," turaing than, oxsI
to see where they were HIT, Tbsr'
was a small trench across q rOa'
south of Caloocan church. Ther'
were eight gugas piled up, ia II
everyone hit in the head. Dewe.
had put two or three shells int
the church and, knocked Of part Q
the roof. The "gugas" got out Q
it apronto;"sthen the boys had