The sun., 1901-04-07
trail. whore his officers and secretaries were

name ana showed me "A lctter from Lieut..
seaman and inquired II knew him
, While We were talking sergeant came In
and long conversation enSued concerning the
ChinOs. The ergeant finally took down
long sun 1nO and left the shack. soon
afterward our interview closed and ] went
back TO my former place The nipa wa~
on the bnCk Oi our shack and presently we
saw the Chnos march by and ! told Alcn
4 | thought they were going To kili them. The
FilipnO~ took them down into n littl" hollow
ana made them knec down In u row. Win
a single stroke Of the krcn-cdg"d sundaur
to eaCh the heads w"rc cut oN, IN" ninth
was spared because his mother was "a Filipino,
but hc waS made To pie mp the h,a ads and
bodies OF the Others and there they were left
, 10 Tot
shorty after this the bottoms of Aliens
feet came on, 80 that hc was unable to walk
for moro than two weeks. he neat morning
I Gen lUkban informed me that he was going
TO san dose and wished me tO 10 along tie
gave me shoes To wear and went bareiOotCd
! himself the entire Journey. Allen was lett
we arrived ut san Jose about 8 O'Clock
that night, and was exceedingly surprised
at what | saw there, II Is a small vista,
and as nearly as possible in the central part
OF Sanar. and close to the peak oil hlgh
mountain, A lookout station was estab-
lshed on the mountain ana from this either
Coast Of Samar could be seen.
Gen lukban introduced me to his officers.
Col. AbuGuc. Iapts SufanO and Dodo ana
Second Lieut. Acedillo, stating that was
the Commandante at BOTongun. and l was
treated with great respect by them all. The
next morning he started detachment for
the Catubig fight. which occurred on Apri
10. In the afternoon Gen. lukban Inspected
their guns and bolos and got them ready to
send away.
This took place near the shack where
l was, confined and ! COUNTED 1903 rihemen.
armed with Remingtons. Mansers and eleven
or twelve krags The bolOmen were moving
about Us So much that could not well count
them but there, wa, something over 900 oil
M nd Iukban made speech To his men
and told them TO be patriotic and do Their
best for their country and make a slowing
for cheers for the Filipino nag. which were
heartily given. Then. after embracing his
officers, he sent them away.
The soldiers had no particular uniio orm,
but We're dressed in different ways, ncaTlN
all having clothes made Of hemp fiber. lhe
officers wore uniforms similar in appearance
revolver each After sending the deiach-
mert 10 Catubig. Gen. Tukhln went away
for about two weeks. but where do not
know,
"One morning after he came back rumor
was started that the Americans were coming
into the town. and was hgrrledly bound an"
taken into "A swamp near by and kept thcrc
for th,rty-siN hours and then taken I" laC"
whore there were three shack together.
The next day, Col AbuQue's wife, Fllila, came
down and occupied one of the ShA,k~. Here
we STAYED for several DAYS
"Whcn neNt Gen rukhnn Cane 10 see
me he said hat a. he had 10 GO from rlnce 70
plA"el the mountains thit II was lllllAt l'Alte
for him 10 take me along, so he had m4d"
arrangements 10 send me- to Sullt, and that
he had ordered that be well treated 4nd hay"
everything that wp> necessary. He also
stated thai Corporal Allen was 10 be sent 10
SulAt Then he put a strong guard over me
and sent me aw1v TO Srl1' and turned ~"
over to the J,fe Local Of the town for safe
" II Suat was put in a house with n private
family, man, wife and ono chi Id, and they
told me that Corporal Allen was IN similar
H. in Z h.t4s 4 HTF tff az -
clothing was In very bad shape ! was provided
with robe which had h",onged I" a priest
Of the town. y This r"h" was evidently
made for n very large, but short man, ma'e
soon after This my feet got very bad
The place whore | was spcared In th1 leg
house for days wondered II Corporal
Allen had been killed or not, as had heard
nothing except what the family had told me,
soc me He was dressed IN a Captain un-
form which was 40 small he had 70 remove
the. sleeves altogether TO get I'll" blouse on
After that was taken 10 see him one" day
for an hour
"wc stayed at his place until the last of
July. Then one day the guard in "a" watch
tower on the side q. the mountain sighted
vessel going 10 Borongan They imWed-
lately took me down TO- 'hs no9,e w. Th'rs
10 the mountains j. was false alarm: and
thcn we asked 10 hs kept together. They
talked N over and strengthened ut, gIhIuH
and left u in ,he sam" shack Al this I'm"
the soldiers wcr" going into the mountains
all tho time 10 the different places whoir
Gen. lNkban had his de'aChnenis 10 ta'1-
balOylu, Cabin OK and MatlganoW, ten,
Tukhtn's headquarters were at Matlganow
az that time
Every detachment that Cnme through
would come 20 the house 10 SEQ MS They
were mostly bolaro' ana took great lrIdr
IN pulling ont their sundangs lSworfsl ana
shaking them before our iar"S ana telling uS
what they we're going Ia 10 VI IN" 'lm'
We STAYED lh"Tr "" never Neni |" sI'eI'
going 10 tc alive III the morning We W"'"
told many times TINT when Gen. Iukhan WI,
Tired of keeping Ms D" would send Tor Us !" h'
brought 70 Ah'igAhnW, ana u'IS haEe n,t
heads Cut on f9r ms reason INC 'houHii
of uip Z" MalSahoW was always mn'h
dreaded by ne,
hNoui The IaHt day NJ ,AuCnst we mao
notice from Gen !nkhan WA, No had "UrI"1
t0, exchange W WIN MaJor Au'il hu' MtH
Allen wouid not cN"hang" Iukhan a..Nays
thpuSht was 'HrlnNhnan'r ana, ih"r'-
fore, ~intrd some n,nh 'ima, m IN aA,,,nRa eor
for m" He also stated that y" ma "ncr'h
20 exchange n, 'or lWo Pt,nn"r- WIZ, ,'I
Murray, DuI WH' 'pl NAi'R ,,N,AIu h'I
exchange 1h"n. w" gay" ~ az nope Pni
thought We would he kept thcre lot "h'"
and finally NH"a Al, ,l,,.u.c-,-.,.
Leon. came ana asked NJ" W lolh 'h' m.
suTs"nt army We i"nhd nHt hl"r ltHl u
was an nTu"f, IRON zen lhNndh ma, MS
proposiin should :, . mage ,N, 4@ Nh"h
he asked inG, 10 lgln 'o!i mn ana ,n1t car"
o. do 80. "" sali ! NlnNIu 70" ihhn' % ' hN-
Ia the | mi"d NWl"' NNT r"crlLrl II"
stated 'h'' most oi th"'r soldiers N'r" Noluh-
t""rS "a no rCcclN"d u" pay; ni' lhht 'n"F h'i
9'lrnrH IN lh"ir arlnK a. h'ahIN pal, as an.