The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-16
PICK OFF OUR SOLDIERS
HOW THE FILIPINOsa AMBUSH
SMALL PARTIES OF AMER
ICANf SOLDIERS
THE CASE OF CAPT. BoARDMAN
Made a ROId Dash and Passed Tn
scathed Through Three VoIleys
OF Bullets-Newspaper
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! Correspondence of the Associated Press.
MANILA, Sept 2f-The American SOL
diers in the Philippines. are occasionally
captured by the enemy, ard stories often
come in of the ambuSh.ng and killing of
two or three of sthe men on the lonely
! roads. A recent example down in Panay
island, which will serve for all the other
| islands equally well, will show how those
| affairs occur. The troops are; scattered
throughout the archipelago in about three
distinct garrisons of from dozen man
up to battalion each, and men are con-
tinually passing from one of these garri-
SONS to another.
AT the present time the island of Panay
appears to be more peaceful than for
many months past. Hitherto hardly a
boat has come from the coast ports to
lloilo without bringing either reports of
murders or expected trouble, but now
rebels have gone SO far as to return a
| prisoner whom they captured last June
and this with no,rexchapge, although a
few weeks ago they proposed that the
man in question be exchanged for cap
tured rifles. The authorities would not
agree to this, and the man was liberated
and has reached the American lines. The
story of his captivity is not yet known
but the way he was captured is as fol-
lows
Capt Boardman, Company G, Twenty
sixth regiment, and Private Savage, of
his command, were returning from Po-
totan to Januiay, ION the evening of June
6, at dusk, and were riding quietly along
the country road beyond the town of
Minao. Boardman was mounted on an
| American horse, and Savage was astride
| native pony.
AMBUSHED BY FILIPINOS.
Suddenly. from just inside the brush
| near the road, the Americans were fired
upon by three Filfpinos Capt. Board
man called Savage to make to rush with
him and spurred ahead. The captain
charged down the road alone and miracu-
lousy escaped three vo.leys from Fill
pinos ahead of him, the. latter concealed
as were the first men who had fired. His
horse was wounded at the second voliey
and fell, throwing the captain violently
to the ground and knocking his revolver
from his hand, thus leaving him unarm
ed. He crawled into TIE underbrush
| and managed to conceal himself. and SO
escape observation, although number
of the insurgents passed very close to
him and continued the. search until they
were recalled by a 'bugle signal Then,
| although severely bruised by his. fall, he
| managed to make his way to the station
OF his company atgJanuiay. Savage was
last seen by Capts ,Boardman just after
| the first volley, and the captain supposed
for a Time that the private was following
him. Later every effort was made to To-
cate Savage until, through spies. it was
| learned that he was alive and held cap
tive by the rebels near Ding1e Nothing
more was heard of the missing soldier
| until q, telegram was received at the regi-
mental headquarters from Maj.aHenry at
Pototan, dated Aug. %, saying that Saw
/ age had been brought in by the native
presidente of Pototan
Inasmuch as news had been received
that Savage was being well treated by
! the rebel leader, Delgado, no effort was
made to release him, as such a move
would doubtless have put him in extreme
| danger of being boloed by his captors as
| the reseuihg party approached. The
| rebels, it is declared, have upon several
occasions killed American prisoners
rather than to let them fall into the
hands Of their comrades.
PRESS CENSORSHIP.
One of the effects of the war in China
has been an Increased demand for news
papers in order to learn the progress of
| events in that country. Interestfn Iloilo
took the form of two new dailies, printed
in Spanish. Journalistic life was pleas
ant. and all went well and proftab1y IN
til few days ago. when the editor of La
| Pinion came out with an article advising
the Filipinos to join forces and proceed
to those villages garrisoned by small
| bodies of Americaiis and there kill off the
/ soldiers, whom they would find at their
| mercy. The Amskscan authorities prompt
ly called officially on the editor and took
severe measures tooimpress upon him an
appreciat on, of the seriousness of the
| action. The measures, while not an