Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-09-02
GENERAL FUNsTON.s VIEW OF WAR
IN PHILIPPINES.
AGUINALDo COULD BE TAKEN
No MORE DIFFICULT THAN CAPTURE
OF APACHE CHIEFS. $50.
General Funston- Says Regimenta1
Commanders Should Be Allowed "a
to Follow Up Advantages
Gained in BattIc-Is
Coming Home.

MANILA. Sept. 1.-Of the troops about
to return to the United States. the Kansas
men will leave on board the transport
Tartar, the Washington regiment on board
the Pennsylvania, and the Nevada cavalry
on the Ohio. All these departures will oc-
cur within the next week Eight hundred
men of the Kansas regiment will return,
and 20J will remain at Manila, $50 of them
re-enlisting. Three officers and thirty men
of the. Kansans We're killed and nineteen
officers and men died from diseases dur
ing the smallpox epidemic. while 10 men,
bers of the regiment were wounded.
OF the Washiugtons, SO men are en-
barking, while eight officers and 2o6 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; twentyfour of the men were
killed, 12s were wounded and nine died.
General Frederick Funston and Mrs.
Funston are with the Kansas regiment.
General Funston has undergone an oper-
alton necessitated by an injury resulting
from Q fall from his horse while serving
in the Cuban army with General Garcia.
In the course of an interview, General
Funston remarked that he would not mind
staying in Luzon. He dislikes war, but in
to remain and aid in bringing it to close.
Speaking of the future, he said:
THE only solution of the problem will
be through whipping the insurgents. l do
not think they will surrender. When We
begin active operations against them on
larger scale in the autumn We will scatter
them into small bands. and l think when
the soldiers composing these bands see
that they are persistentIy pursued they
will throw away or hide their arms and re-
turn to their pursuits of peace. A year
hence, small bodies of armed men will be
able to go anywhere in Luzon. The island
was always infested with bandits, and was
never safe for Europeans TO travel in.
Probably after the end of the fighting the
highwaymen will be more numerous be-
cause the members of Auginaldo's army,
who have lived for years with guns in
their hands, have acquired a taste for
bush life and would rather continue as
highwaymen than return to work.
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 re-
treat rapidly. Cavalry could overtake and
hopelessly scatter and punish them, and
could subsist largely on the country. When
cavalry is once here 1t should be given
chance to go ahead and not be kept in
towns for guard duty. Our greatest sue
cesses have been aimed when the regi-
mental commanders have been allowed
quickly to follow up the advantages gained
in battle. Small bodies of Americans, op-
Grating 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 PROPOSE
ton than the capture Of the Apache chiefs