Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-01
MUST WHIP THEM
Gen. FunStOn'S Idea of the
Filipino Natives.
WILL NOT SURRENDER
Cavalry Is Needed to Follow the Reb-
els and Divide Them Into Small
Bands--Kansas and Washington
Men Return Next Week.

Manila. Sept. /. $40 a. m.-Of the
troops about to return to the United
States, the Kansas men will leave on
board the transport Tartar, the Wash
ington regiment on board the Pennsyl-
vania and the Nevad cavalry on the
Ohio. All these departures will occur
within the next week. Eight hundred
men of the Kansas regiment will return
and 200 will remain at Manila, $50 of
them re-enlisting. Three officers and 80
men of the Kansas regiment We're killed
and 10 officers and men died from dis
ease during the smallpox epidemic. while
122 members Of the regiment were woun-
ded. Of the Washington S75 are embark
ing, while eight officers and 206 men will
stay, most of the remaining enlisting in
the new regiments being formed here.
One of the officers of the regiment was
killed, one was wounded and one died
from disease. "a men We're killed, 12S were
and 9 died. General Frederick
Funston and Mrs. Funston are with the
generals regiment. General Funston
has undergone an operation necessitated
by an injury resulting from a fall from
his horse while serving in the Cuban
army with General Gomez. In the course
of an interview General Funston re-
marked thai he would not mind staying
in Luzon. He dislikes war, out inasmuch
as there is fighting he would like to re-
main and aid in bringing it to q close.
Speaking of the future he said: The
only solution of the problem will be
through whipping the insurgents. I do
not think they will surrender. When we
began active operations against them on
a larger scale in the autumn we will scat
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soldiers composing these bands see that
they are persistenely pursued they will
throy away or hide their arms and return
to their pursuits of peace. \ year hence
small bodies of armed men viii be able
to go anywhere in Luzon. The Stands
We're always invested with bandits and
We're never safe for Europeans to travel
in. Probably after the end of the fight
ing the highwayraen Will be more numer-
Gus because the members Of Aguinaldo's
army who have liyed for years with
guns in their hands have acquired q taste
for brush life and would wish to con-
tinue this life. Cavalry is greatly needed
here. The country, when dry, is superb
for cavalry operations. The insurgents
have none. One of their strong points is
their ability to retreat rapidly. Cavalry
could overtake and hopelessly scatter
and punish them, and could subsist
largely on the country. When cavalry is
, once here it should be given a chance to
go ahead and not be kept in towns for
guard duty. Our greatest successes have
been gained when the regimental COM
handlers have been allowed to quickly
follow up the advantages gained in bat
tie. Small bodies of Americans, oper-
| ating freely and commanded by officers
of dash and energy could badly break UP
the enemy. The capture of Aguinaldo
by cavalry would be a less difficult prop
osition than the capture of the Apache
chiefs of Arizona