The Republican., 1900-03-29
A BRAVE EXPLOIT.


dler in Manila who has the following
OF interest to say about the condition
of affairs over there and Col CasteeI
who is well known in Oakland.
Hardly a day passes that fails to
bring the report of massacres, ambus-
cades and outrages of all sorts in the
outer districts. A troop of cavalry.
patroillng presumably pacified dis
trict, will be suddenly ambushed by
a greatly superior force; a small BODY
OF soldiers will go out unarmed for a
walk in the Outkirts of q peaceful
town, and be found by their comrades
few hours later, weltering in their
blood, and in many cases, with their
bodies savagely treated--in short.
guerilla warfare is daily INDUCED in
by the so-called Army of the Philip
pine Republic' They are treacher
Gus and persistent, cowardly and
crafty. In every case where they
have met the American soldier on
anything like equal ground they have
been ANONYMOUSLY routed, and in
the majority Of cases they have been
routed, whatever the odds.
Fifty men Of the Fourth Cavalry.
under Lieut.. Munroe captured over
seven hundred of them, including
arms and supplies by a daredevil
bluff backed up with fifty carbines
and six-shooters. Capt. Baston of
Macabee scout fame, and two troopers
OF the Fourth, made a pistol charge
on a trench and drove off fifty of
Aguinaldo's regulars; and last but
not least, brave volunteer Capt. d.
L. Il. Casteel, late Assistant Adiutant
General at Charleston, utterly routed
an ambuscade of 400 insurgents with
only a part of a company. As this
engagement was characteristic one
and thoroughly illustrates the tao
tics of the Filipinos, it might be we'll
to describe it from the authentic
report just received
On January Goth Capt. D. T. E.
Casteel, commanding Company E,
37th Infantry, numbering seventy-one
men, was Unexpectedly attacked by
force of some four hundred of the en-
emy between Morong and Panay.
The insurgents opened fire from the
cover OF the brush at the foot of hill
q q ,5ictoTS = ~ .,OO --.T,-i- ~ -
First Sergent Neeland and mortally
wounding Private O'Rourke. The,
Americans fell back at the first fire,
and, after returning a few volleys
from the cover of the rice bank a foot
high, Capt Casteel led his command
through the waist deep mud and.
water of the rice field to within 100
yards of the enemy, who stubbornly
held their ground. Then the Ameri-
can captain coolly flanked them, right
and left, causing their immediate
rout in front, and had Quartermaster
Sergeant Scheurer, who commanded
the rear guard detail, taking adyan
tage of the opportunity and opened
fire on the thanking party of the enc
my that had cut him off from the
main body, the whole command
would probably have fallen into the
hands of the intrepid little band of
men it started out to capture. This
is fair example of the method EN-
ployed by the insurgents in all the
principal engagement. ss.s.
The Filipino has found out by eYe
perlence that in a square, stand-up
fight he is no match for the Ameri-
cans, and he has ceased to meet him
on anything like equal terms. He
substitutes craft for courage, attack
ing our soldier only when he is un-
armed or otherwise at a disadvantage.
To trust an Amigo" means death,
as our forces have learned by grim e1-
perience. With such existing condi-
tions, the difficulties of the problem
here are many and intricate. There
is no longer a large force of insurgents
to combat, and the principal part of
the island is in the hands of the Uni
ted States-that is, in Importance, for
the Americans hold only about one
third of the actual area of Luzon.
The people profess to desire American
control and to be thoroughly satisfied
with what the United States offers in
the way of civil government, yet as
soon as they are granted little liber-
ty they use it as an opportunity ~
treachery and outrage. The same
man that sells you fruit in the town
and processes to be "mucho Amigo
will be found dead in the next g. ~
you take. 1t seems that there /.
hold on these strange people that .
stronger than any the United States
has yet been able to secure.
He Fooled the Surgeons.
All 1notorc toI6 Ranial- uoO,Ifo,