The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-25
THE RESCUE
OF SHIELDS
Dramatic Story of the
Captain.
AMERICANS BRAVE FIGHT
Queer Tale of Missing Major Rookie
feIIer's Killing His Own
Son.

TENDER by the insurgents in the Island
of Martinique, was due to the prompt,
energetic and decisive campaign of the
adequate force that was dispatched to
their aid as soon as it was known that
they had fallen into the hands of the
enemy. Special credit for the rescue is
due to Captain Anderson, commanding
Companies b and d of the Thirty
eighth Regiment, who landed at Santa
Cruz the very morning the insurgents
demanded the surrender of the garrison
who were besieged there. Captain An
derson Immediately hit the trail of the
rebels and captives and followed it
closely. Frequently, however, he I'M
knowingly passed close to the prisoners
and their captors, who were doubling
on their tracks.
General Hare, with 100 men of the
First Infantry, shortly afterward ar
rived and occupied the various towns
of the island. He forced the insurgents
and those suspected of aiding them into
the mountains, where it was impossible
for them to obtain food. There was no
fighting, but starvation finally COM
PEELED the rebels to negotiate for the
surrender of the prisoners. 1t was ar
ranged that the captives should be de-
| livered at the rendezvous on the beach
at Buena Vista on Sunday, and this
plan was carried out, General Hare re-
| ceiving the prisoners.
Captain Shields, who was wounded
| three times in the fighting that led to
| his capture, tells a dramatic story of
| the engagement. After he was wounded
he ordered sergeant to take command
| of the troops and that he himself be
abandoned. A faithful member of the
| hospital corps refused to leave him.
and they were both taken prisoners.
| Later the company, which was without
| ammunition but still resisting, surren-
}. dered owing to a mistaken order. The
men We're then robbed and abused by
| the Filipinos. Captain Shields is now in
| Manila, where he is recovering from
! the effects of his wounds and the priva-
lions suffered while in the hands of the
natives. He estimates that there are
! 40, 900 male inhabitants in Marinduque
/ The insurgents who attacked his COM
pany numbered 2300. OF these 300 were
| armed with rifles and the rest were
| bolomen. General Hare has granted
| the insurgents a weeks amnesty, which
ends on Sunday.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. ia cable dis
patch was received from General Mac
Arthur to-day giving the casualties of
| Captain Shields command in the ISL
and of Martinique. Captain Shields
and his men were captured by the in
surgents and afterward rescued by
General Hare's troops. The list fol-
! lows:
| ar1ta or
| Twenty-ninth Regiment, United States
/ Volunteer Infantry, William Andrew
Elmer Rurare, Erwin Niles; September
18th, Frank Weighand.
| Wounded-Septembe 18th, Captain
Devereaux Shields, neck, mouth and
shoulder, serious; Liown S. Colvin, hip
slight: Robert D. Jackson, cheek
slight; Oliver G.. Johnson, head, slight
arm, serious; Juan B. Poole head
slight; John c. Hew, head and wrist,
slight, shoulder, serious.
Captain Shields party consisted of
himself and fifty-one men, all but one
Of whom were members of Company f
of the Twenty-ninth Volunteer Infan-
try.
A QUEER YARN
/ NEW YORK, Oct. IA special to
the Journal from Columbus, o., says:
According to a letter just received by
his brother-in-law, Terrence Regain OF
! Milwaukee. Major Charles n. Rookie
Teller of the Ninth Infantry is in Santa
/ Barbara, Honduras, and will remain
there. Major Rockefeller deserted soon
/ after fierce engagement near San
Benoir. The FiipinOs were led by a
handsome young white man who fought
like hero and led his men right up to
fh.a a ,1.t4-S. ~ II
shot the Filipino leader dead. The dead
leader proved to be a son of the major,
who had been kidnapped while Rocke-
Teller and his wife were on duty in
Hongkong in 1872.
The child was two years old when
stolen. The Rockefellers We're living at
the International Hotel in Hongkong,
and Chinese nurse cared for the baby
The lieutenant had arranged to visit
his home in Columbus Two days before
the date set for the sailing the Chinese
and the baby disappeared. Hongkong
was searched. Large rewards were Of
fered, but no trace of the nurse or child
could be found. The lieutenant and his
wife were compelled to return to the
United States without their little one
Mrs. Rockefeller died soon after her ar
rival in San Francisco, and the grief
stricken father rejoined his regiment
He saw service with the Ninth in In
walls, III CuDd, and when his
regiment was ordered to the PHILIPPINES
! IN the spring of 1899 he went along. He
was then captain and was known
throughout the army as a particularly
caring soldier. Soon after his arrival at
Mania he was made major and trans
Ierred to the Sixth Infantry. Major
tocheIeiier directed that the body of
the Filipino leader he had killed be
searched, and papers found revealed
mat he was Paul Stanhope of Hong
Kong A diary written in English and
giving details of the business career OF
the young fellow was found in his
blouse.
a month after the engagement Rookie.
teller received letter from Hongkone
IN response to the one he had written
nearly year before. The letter was
from the American Consul and recited
that in 1879 white boy had been placed
in the Jesuit College in Hongkong bv q
Chinese woman, who said he was nine
years old and that his name was Pau
. Yen. The name of the Chinese woman