Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-13
NATIVE SOLDIERS
WILL HAVE TO REPLACE VOLUN-
TIERS IN PHILIPPINES.
ILOCANOS AND MACABEBES
Have Done Good Service-Tribal Ha-
treds Make Them Effective and
Energetic.


Manila, August las the time APP
proaches for the Volunteers to leave
these Islands and return to the United
States in order that all may be mustered
out there by June 80 or next year, the
question Of how to replace the departing
troops has brought the matter of an
armed native militia to general notice.
For more than a year there has been
in the service of the United States a de-
tachment of native Macabebe scouts.
and their work has. in the main, been
satisfactory. 1t is urged that other ma
tive fighting organizations can be used
with as good a result as the Macabebees,
especially if the authorities take advan-
tage of existing tribal hatredS and jeal-
ousies in selecting native soldiery to
operate against the TagaloS. In many
of the village garrisonS throughout the
islands native inhabitants are being en-
ployed as a local police force to protect
their own villages against depreciation
and attack from robbers and other male
factors. These local police are, in some
cases, given firearms and uniforms and
they have at times, done effective work
in the limited field OF action allowed them,
namely the protection of their own
homes. They have also been used in
operations against the insurgents, both
in Luzon and in the southern islands. In
Leyte they did good work two months
ago when they helped eight American
soldiers repel a persistent inSurgent at
tack upon their own town, and two
weeks ago, near Lipa, twenty native po-
llcenlen went out out alone against forty
insurgents. scattered the enemy, killing
one, and returned proudly to their own
town with two of their number wounded.
These are the beginnings of what must
eventually come to pass in. the Philip
pines, namely the organization and use
Of native soldiers to preserve order in
the country. Just how these men will be
organized and Differed is not yet decid-
ed; but Major Allen. of the Forty-third
regiment, on Samar Island, has lately
been given permission by General Mac
Arthur to organize two companies of
Visayans for use against the insurgents.
and Colonel kennon, of the Thirty-fifth
regiment, now stationed in Cabanatuan,
In the Nueva Ecija Province of Luzon,
has been experimenting along the same
lines with Ilocanos from the Northern
portion of Luzon Island.
ENLISTED ILOCANOS.
In December of last year about six
hundred IlocanoS came to Col. Kennon
at Cabanatuan, and asked to enlist under
the American flag. Colonel Kennon a:
once opened negotiations with the corps
headquarters in Manila on the matter
and June l he was granted permission
to enlist fifty 1locanos as scouts. Dur
ing this interim of six months the six
hundred men We're employed as far Us
possible as road builders. ration carriers
and guides. The success of thisl rst de-
tachment in the service will probably
soon lead TO the enlistment of otler Ilo-
rano tribesmen.
Between Ilocona and Tagalog there is
a fierce race hatred, The Ia galogs have
lorded it over the Ilocanos for years and
have held them down and oppressed
them. But TODAY the Iocanos, who
pride themselves on belonging to another
and distinct tribe from the Tagaloss,
have in a measure accepted American
sovereignty and are itching for chances
to get at their enemy. Tnis attitude of
tha Tocanos subjects them to Tagalog
rep1.isals and yengeance. Last month a
band of insurgents caught three Iloca-
M women and one man. alone on the
road near San Jose, in Neuva Ecija
nroyinre. The man and one women We're
at once killed. The other TWO women
were horribly wounded with bolos and
then hurled alive in a well, where Amer
lean soldiers later found and rescued
them. On the borders of the uocano-
Tagalog country such occurrences are
common ana 10 % h hnoh ho t = more han
n a, a,sa that renders the Tocano
affoeti,-a ,n5 usefn, as a fighter against
tha To galop Col. Kennon's scouts were
Of onne mi IN the trail of the Tagalog
party that buried the Ilocano wolnan
eiirs end thav chased and punished
tban,
>-c1-pcrNrc
Mill ~
The scouts have been active since
their organization. For the first three
weeks they We're drilled by A,hIaicams
and their own non-comm'ssloned oH!cers,
showing much interest ana prlde ana
considerable aptitude IN TINS trainIns:
They were sent, June "a, 10 the suppor'
of the American garrison az A''a No.
threatened with attack oy ouo re9ela. : me
following day tWenly-oMo n,nnnJ
scouting south OF Allasa, un nv; IT. - Tn,rth
of Lieut.. Jernlgan, Oh me ~ NAVY AMI
regiment, met Sixty OF sn. eh1 G!hs mi
IN a sfiarp nsht; ni,ieu bors de- com.
I'VE more 90 % and Inna 20 seven Ilocanos
bat June 2s ana June ov 500 ~ insur.
anu tnlee ~ Li1,ing three. thew r..
gents anu 49, anr,snts ana found
tired LOT o,ith thirty scents. whc
lieut.. nantaI tha Ta galogs. adding &C
prohll,iy 49, ,oasoe therahv mill the .ota
the fE'Del IosSco IHS ~. ,ct,