The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-22

How He Behaves as a COmbatant and
as n Prisoner.

How He Behaves as a COmbatant and
as Prisoner.
This little black man who is causing us
the same kind of trouble that the boy
experiences with hornets nest cannot
be understood in day. When captured he
acts as if his lot had fallen among old
friends. He grins and points beyond our
skirmishers, seeming to think that the
pect of his fleeing cOuntrymen is a huge
joke. The next minute but give him the
chance he is likely to send bullet into
an Americans back. For such Of
Tense Maj. Gen. Anderson once had Fill
pno strung up to a tree on the spot this
being the only American military execution
thus far recorded in the Philippines.
A giant private of the Mantanas chose
a different method. When he was fired
on, at a distance of about ten yards and
missed, he caught he enemy, took his gun
away from him and then laid him across his
knees. After he had vigorously applied
a piece of bamboo he seized the enemy
toward the rear.
There" he said, ''don't you let me
catch you playing with firearms again.
The little black mans confidence in the
European rife has waned. In the begin
mig he thought that he had only to discharge
his Mauser at white man and the white
man was dead. This led to the firing
from the houses and the reckless chances
which the Filipinos took at first when
their losses were so great. Now they
generally are good after they are cap
tured. and they do not fire from houses.
Most of what even their leaders know of
military practice they have learned from
the Spanards. They are facile in im
tation as the Chinese. Their buglers now
do our calls as well as our own. By watch
ing us they found out that they have been
firing too high and now they are trying
fha vol
leys from our skirmish line begins to pour
in. Then they cringe too much in their
trenches to aim on a level. The trenches
(of the Spanish type) are built under cover
at strategic points, which admit OF easy de-
tense, and retreat, with the smallest posi-
BILE exposure, once the Americans advance.
On wall above the line of one insurgent
trench were 16 abrasures by bullets in
space two feet by one.
Such music as was played there is dis
concerting. The little black man will not
remain to hear it after our men with
in 200 yards. At running he is easily the
Americans superior. His feet never get
sore He has no clothing to impede his
progress, except cotton shirts and trousers.
He knows the by paths and the fords of
the streams. But he feels that it is very
unfair for us to make him retreat. We are
not practicing warfare as he understands
it at ALL What is the use of rifles that
will shoot $500 yards if you are going
to try to catch the enemy with your hands?
Aguinaldos officers are highly incensed
about our artillery, it is said. If they have
no guns ought to use none, and if they
have three, four or five. as the case may be,
we ought to use only three or four or five,
What has happened, however, was to have
been expected after We refused to fire
back and forth in the moonlight, between
trenches, which is the only kind and gener
Gus method of making war in the tropics.
~ To Ma1n orrrr mo ho6
and fought all day under the beating sun,
slept on the ground, swan rivers and did
everything which it was supposed by the
natives that white men could not do. They
thought that we would not attempt to drive
them out of more than one line of intrench-
ments at time, and then rest at least
weak after each effort. A prisoner explain
ed his feeling by saying: "Thr-r-r-t!" and
making rapid movement with his hands,
Frederick Palmer. in Golfers Weekly.