Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1899-05-23
FIGHT LIKE APACHES
Filipino War Methods Employed
Against Americans
TsosDs shot Down BY Nsaves UnAer
0ovsS Who Attack Even the
eoLAAers Caring fo< The
wounded.

In their fighting tactics the Filipino
insurgents closely resemble the blood
thirsty Apaches of this country. They
rarely give open battle, unless cor
nered, preferring TO stalk their hui
man game and shoot it down from IN
der over. American pickets are ired
upoh in the dusk of evening or early
morning from clumps of shrubbery
into Whit the insurgents stealthily
crawl and lie concealed for hours wait
ing for 700 -hot. They hide them
selves behind tree trunks and in the
tall grass, and wriggle about like eels.
firing at some straggler, and then Gid
ing noise.essly off to new shelter
before return shot can be made. Hos
piial parties sent out from the Ameri-
can camps To look after the wounded
are not safe ram attack, and when
allowed under a flag -of-truce pact, to
pick up their own dead and, wounded.
the insurgents frequently take advan-
tage OF the opportunity to open fire
on the Americans.
The constant diminishing in which
they have taken part throughout the
period OF active operations has brought
some Of them 10 a nigh degree of per
lection az marksmen, while others.
again. are unable to handle rifle, and
are better acquainted with bows and
arrows. The Filipino much prefers an
intermittent and desuliory conflict, in
which the Americans necessarily come
out into the open, while the natives re-
main in ambuscade in the thick bush.
The American marksmeD have to be
satisfied II they can lie ihree-parts hid
den in the long grass. creeping up TO
the fringe of the woods from which
the natives are dislodged. only to take
refuge under more remote cover. Even
the parks and promenades OF Manila
are not safe from the fire OF stray
Filipinos, and repeated attempts have
been made in such places as the now
eenuded Botanical gardens to assassi-
nate American officers Here the
trees have been stripped of their To-
liage, which lies abou, in heaps, and
affords capital shelter for these un-
tutored natives on murder intent.
Ii was this condition of affairs
coupled with the persi,,ency of the
insurgents in refusing 10 respec; mill
tArv control bv the Americans. that
led to she first battle Al Manila After
the natives had been repeatedly
warned against passing the American
pickete, and after they had ignored
the challenges of the sentries. one O.,
the latter fired upon some natives who
persisted in crossing the forbidden
line. The natives replied with heavy
fusillade, causing the American troops
to turn out in force. Thus began the
battle of Manila. on the night of Sat
urday. February 4. 1t was resumed
al daybreak on Sunday morning. aud
by the time il ended over 1000 Filipiuus
lay dead on the field. The American
losses amounted TO between 50 and 90
killed and POO wounded.
During the Spanish regime tons
upon tons of sandbags had been accu-
muated and lodged at v--io-s spots
around Manila--s.oo 600 bags In all
with the objec, OF throwing lines
round the city Much OF this material
has been carried of by the insurgents
and adapted 10 their own purposes
as shelter for the ,umbledown build
ings occupied by them as barracks.