The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-10
THE PHILIPPINE WAR.
navy AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE En-
OPERATED By TREACHERY.

coward Was Responsible For
rood Destruction an Important
Lesson.
-rom the New York Evening Post
,isrilao. P. l., April 4-"Just watch
osr smoke" is what the Minnesota and
orsson regiments have adopted for a mot
~ since their experiences of the last few
DAYS Their trail was eight miles long
and the smoke of burning buildings and
-tc4 heaps rose into the heavens the entire
5.s,,nce. and obscured the face of the
Iso5scape for many hours. They started
a., DAYLIGHT in the morning, driving the
rab.ls before them and setting the torch
T., sverything burnab.e in their course, I'M
III noon. when they returned to their start
iog point at Bocave. on the RAILROAD This
c.as in retaliation for a night attack made
mon them by the soldiers of Aguinaldo
and the armed citizens residing in the raid
81 district 1t was sample of the war
fare that he been made necessary at times
IN certain districts, where the entire male
population belongs 10 the citizen sol
dfsrv7 of the revolution. In the daytime
they are "muchos amigos with the
Americans, and speak disrespectfully of
Aelinaido, but at night they recover their
seereted guns, girt their loins with a home
made belt of Mauser or Remington am
rruuiliou, and prowl about the American
camps to shoot into them, pot sentneis,
and cue off patrols, or JOIN with the regu-
lar soldiers in more serious attacks such
as the one that gave the initiative to the
eighi-mile trail of smoke.
I'm one sense it is pitiful, and in another
amusing, TO see the little professions of
refugees and apparent non-combatants
passing constantly through the lines, max
ing their way back to the homes they
fed from as the American troops advanc-
ed In the campaign for the capture Of Ma
loi0s homes that may be but heaps of
ashes around which homeless dogs howl
At NIGHT singed cats prowl and where
chickens that have been too agile for the
soraging soldiers stin continue to roost,
and pigs that have lived for days upon
tbe bodies of insurrectos killed in the
woods and rice fields root for something
else TO satisfy their appetites Pathetic
univ and in no sense amusing. to one
not hardened to all the finer sensibilities,
would the sight be if it were in fact what
If is in Observation-Disclosures and innocent
refugees, driven from their homes by
cruel war and returning to them in fear
and trembling to procure the necessaries
Of life. But to the soldier who has been
the midnight target of the rifles of some
of these innocent-appearing non-combat-
ants, the sight Is different. lie watches
,e ;t, ",ras on bic Iine ,,ttarod ~
5i,,s.1f and HE connexions not r. the
rsc,,goss however for tba ofTicars enforce
49,. strict ordere that hove beep over,
tbsss so-caIled non-combatants He
vopd like RI shoot every at,ie-b,died man
among Them and feels indeed badly used
bscause.he is NOT permitted 10 seize uDon
them and make them build the trenches
he is comnelled to work uDon in the hot
sun 10 protect him in the dark hours
from their fellow non-com batants, who
have not yet organized professions, or
from some of these men themselves, who
are thus humbly marching through his
camp, carrying a protecting white flag,
for the purpose of getting the Information
that will enable them to shoot TO better
advantage next time.
One who has not worked or fought all
day in the hot sun and been robbed of his
sleep all night by the shots of these guer-
illas; one who does not understand that
the white-shirted amigo who gives the
soldier glass of water by day, with
low bow of mingled courtesy and SerVil
ity by night gives him Mauser bullets,
with a deep Tagalog maledction, cannot
fully appreciate the frame of mind into
which the soldiers at the front have come.
Character of Returpin. Refuyeas
as nave saio' THESE rel usees are an
NoH-coiiioa taltS ullueI tle oruefs III loIce'
o"o YET an are OF az leas| were parucl-
P'u's III the 1hsurrectloh' 1he5 helpeo
'ie cause "lous ny serving IN tue army
SWING secret information manufacturing
"'liuuul'ioh' ana IN puIaihs uencnes'
NHoollhS guns burning houses ueslroYlhS
IallIoaus ana telesraphs' ana nnut"atlhs
Inc podles OF the lew Americans that nave
Ialeh INTO their hahds, ana When they
Aeu from their homes they ana not DO SO
as innocent victims OF me horrors OF war;
out as participants AFRAID OF punishment
Tor their deeds. Now they are beginning
TO return, knowing the Americans Will
respect the white flag they bear; bringing
back their old men, womsn and children,
whom they cannot care for in the hills,
either 10 give up war because convinced
III ~. 70