Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-12-05
WARM
Regard For England
On Part of American
Soldiers.
Akron Young Man Writes
Letter
Detailing an Incident In the
Philippines.
British Gun Boat Saves Sick Ameri-
cans From Harm.

cans From Harm.
The following interesting letter from
an Akron soldier in the Philippines has
been received by one of his Akron
friends:
Rosario, Cavite Province, Luzon, P.I.,
Oct. 16, 1900.
You and my Akron acquaintances
will remember me as the balloonist,
Prof Frank o. Stevens, formerly of
your city, but at present l am fight
ing niggers in the Philippines. Since
coming here l have seen great many
caribou, or water buffalo. l am GO
ing to get the hide of one to be stuff
ed and given to Mr.. VIM. Washer,
of Akron, to be placed among his fine
lCOlltCllOu VI IdIS StuiltI
have Travelled in a great many States,
but have seldom seen finer private
collection than his.
/ don't want to say too much on
this subject, but the English forces
here saved our bacon on Oct. 3, at
Cavite. We and all of Uncle Sans
boys are friends to Tommy Atkins,
and can police the world together at
any time.
The Filipinos were raising Old Har
ry all around here. At that time my
regiment was 23 miles south by road
way from Manila in n town called
Emus. Our marines We're at Cavite,
the Seaport town at which Dewey
fought his famous battle. We had
u hospital at Cavite, with good many
of our boys confined therein sick. On
the 3rd of October, about 1000 Phil
ippine soldiers came in between Ca
vite and Emus. The two towns being
several miles apart, we went out to
meet the Filipinos in front while our
marines left Cavite and came down
on the rebels behind. In the mean,
time the Filpinos had heard that our
troops had left Cavite unprotected.
So 400 Filipinos were detached from
the ranks and went back to the bay,
where they took boats to cross to the
peninsula on which Cavite is located.
There was an English warship at Ca,
vite. The English commander of the
ship suspected that the Filipinos We're
going to burn the American hospital
and butcher the unprotected soldiers.
What did old England's boys do?
They just happened to remember that
that was their target practice day.
SO they opened up down the bay.
They killed so Filiplnos the first
round, 200 the next, and before they
had finished only n few out of the
400 nlggers escaped. When they got
back to the shore they said, "The Eng
llsh mucho mallo," meaning '"rhe
English are bad" They reported t, is
circumstance to the English consul,
and he called up the commander of
the English gunboat for an explanu-
ton. The. commander replied that he
had had the ship out in the bay for
practice, when some of the Fillpinos
opened up on the ship with their
Mausers. He thought he would teacn
them to distinguish an English man
of-war from an American boat, and
teach them he did. OF course he had
to put up a bluff like this to make
it appear that everything was all
right, but every member of the reg
Iiment am In and all the marines who
were here at the time know that
Englands men saved Glory's sick and
wounded at the Cavite hospital, Oct
3, You have heard young Americans
say how easily America could whir
England. A thought of that kind
should be the last thought to enter
la t,,,a An,arioan's mind EnOIaud