Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-14
.FOR NAIVE hN|I|A'
IReturn q Volunteers From Philip.
pines and Problem Of Filling
Their llaOea
Some Talk Of Organizing ! Militia
Among the Loyal Native
Population.
Macabsbee Scouts and Native Police
Have In Several Instances
Proved Efficient.

WoV0U0U00 OVOulS duV N0tlv0 IVllVOj
Have In Several Instances
Proved Efficient.
Correspondence of Associated Press
Manila. Aug. las the time. ap-
proaches for the volunteers to leave
these islands and return to the United
States in order that all may be mus
tered out there by June 30 of next year,
the question of how to replace the de-
parting 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
detachment of native cabebee scouts,
and their work has in the main been
satisfactory. It is argued that, other
native fighting organizations can be
used with as good result as the Maca-
bebees, especially if the authoritiesAtake.
of existing tribal hatreds
and jealousfes in selecting native sol-
diery to operate against the Tagaloge.
In many OF the village garrisons thru
out the Islands native inhabitants are
being employed as local police force
to protect their own villages against
depredations and attack from robbers
and other malefactors. These local po-f
lice 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 Luxon:
and in the southern islands. In Leyte3
they did good work two months ago,
when they helped eight American SOL.
diers repel persistent insurgent at
tack upon their town. and two weeks
ago. near Lipa, twenty native policemen
went out alone against forty insurgents.
scattered the enemy, killing one, and
returned proudly to their town with
two OF their number wounded. These
are the beginnings of what must event
ually come to pass in the Philippines,
namely, the organization and use of
native soldiers to preserve order in the
country. just how these men will be
organized and officered is not yet de-
cided; but Maj. Allen. Of the Forty
third Regiment. on Sanrar island, has
lately been given permission by Gen.
Macarthur to organize two companies
Of Visayans for use against the insurA
gents, and Col. Kennon, of the Thirty
fifth Regiment, now stationed in Ca
banatuan. in the Nueva Ecija province
of Luzon, has been experimenting
along the same lines with Ilocanos from
the northern portion of Luzon island
In December of last year about 600
Ilocanos came to Con. kennon. at Ca
Ibanatuan, and asked TO enlist under the
| American flag. Col. kennon at once
lopened negotiations with the corps
HEADQUARTERS in Manila on the matter
land June ! he was granted permission
20 enlist fifty Ilocanos as scouts. Dur
ling this interim of six months the 6W
men We're employed as far as possible
las road builders ration carriers anc
guides The success OF this first detach:
ment in the service will probably soor
lead to the enlistment of other llocant
ltribesmen.
Between Ilocano and Tagalog there i!
i a fierce race hatred. The Tagalogs hay'
< lorded iii over the Ilocanos for years ant
have held them down and Oppressed
4 them. But today the Ilocanos Wit
slpride Themselves on belonging to an
stiother and distinct tribe from the Taga
logs. have in measure accepted Amer
slican sovereignty and are itching 70
chances to get at their enemy. This at
4 titude of the Ilocanos subjects them I,
4 Tagaiog reprisals and. vengeance. Las
4 month band OF insurgents caugh
a three Ilocano women and one man alon
Il on the road near San Jose, in Nneya &c
B liza province The man and one NC. nal
were at once killed. The other tw
en- were horribly wounded with
A and then buried alive in a We'll. s.s.ssii;
American soldiers later found ard res
4 cued them. On the borders of the lilo
cano- Tagalog country such occurrence
4 are common. and go to show the exist
= ing tribal hatred. It IL this hatred NOR
a than anything else that renders the lilo
cano effective and useful as flghte
Il against the Tagalog. Col. Kennon'
scouts We're al once put on the trail q
the Tagaiog party that buried the lilo
!, Iscano women alive, and they chased an
!. punished them.
The scouts have been active sine
their organization. For the first thre
weeks they were drilled by American
and their own non-commissoned Off
I5cers. showing much interest and prid
and considerable aptitude In this train
4 ing. They We're sent, June "a, to ii
Z support Of the American garrison :
Aliaga. threatened with attack by 81
rebels. The following day twenty-tw
Ilocanos. scouting south OF Aliaga, VI
der command of Lieut.. Jernigan, OF til
Thirty-fourth regiment, met sixty of I'll
enemy, and. in a sharp fight, killed fou
They put five more OF the insurgen1
hors de combat June %, and June
seven Ilocanos and three Americans M
: seventy Insurgents and, after killir
three. they retired for reinforcement
q and found Lieut.. Jernigan, with thirt
:, scouts, who promptly routed the Tag
. logs, adding to the rebel losses theret
z until the total number OF the enen
Z. killed by the fifty Ilocano scouts on the
J. first campaign reached seventeen.
In their fighting the Ilocanos a
!, much benefited by the moral s,lppo
:. given them by the presence of Amer