The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-06
AGU|NALDO IS CAPTURED BY
GEN, FUNSTON'S STRATEGY
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/ ed to advise the surrender of all insur-
gents will have great deal to do with
lessening any punishment which would
! have been melted out to him as the
| leader of the rebellion. The internal
| evidence of General MacArthur's dis
patch indicates that there has been
reached some understanding with the
! insurgent chief The dispatches of last
night were very brief. No one at the
! White House or at the War Depart
ment knew until late today of the use
which would be made of Aguinaldo,
and therefore the discussion was to the
| effect that, under the rules of war he
was prisoner of war, and could be
imprisoned Indefinitely and fined heav-
lily
The news of the capture reached the
War Department at 11:15 last night,
the dispatch having been taken at the
White House and at the War Depart
ment at the same time. The feature
of the news that General Macarthur
gave all the credit to General Funston
was not generally known until this
evening and was commented on as
greatly to the credit of Macarthur
The Generals attitude toward General
Funston was in marked contrast with
the dispatch of Admiral Sampson, who
| cabled the victory at Santiago of the
fleet under, my command"
1t Is said tonight that the President
will not delay in rewarding General
Funston. owing to the glowing terms
| in which he has been spoken of by
General Macarthur in the official dis
patches.
JEALOUSY AT THE WAR DEPART
MENT.
A remarkable feature or the news
today at the War Department was
that there was no disposition among
tho War nana rt officials n OIL
Funston credit for his deed of daring.
1t will be recalled that all the efforts
of FunSton's friends recently failed to
get him a brigadier generalship, and
this, it was said was largely due to
the persistently hostile attitude OF the
War Department officials. That atti-
tude was accomplished today before
the eulogy of General Macarthur
reached the department
Some of the officers here today went
so far as to say that Aguinaldo must
have connived at his own capture on
! the theory that he was impressed with
MacArthur's recent proclamation Civ
| ing April LIST as the date when the
rebels should lay down their arms 1t
was suggested that Aguinaldo, with
characteristic shrewdness, had govern
| ed his own surrender by the imposing
| fiction of a Funston capture. 1t was
difficult for some army officers here to
understand how Funston and a small
band could penetrate to Aguinaldo' s
secret camp and carry out such a ruse.
! Other officers discussed whether such
was a legitimate act of warfare Judge
Advocate General Lieber, who is an
authority on the government or armies
| in the field. and. whose father has
written a standard book on that sub
! ject said that there was nothing ir-
regular in Funston's action. The ex-
plot might be classified as the work of
d spy which if successful Is deemed
! eminently proper, and if unsuccessful
gives the adventures no quarter at
! the hands of the enemy. 1t was to be
assumed that an effect greatly to be
desired was the capture of the leader
of the rebels. and that the end justified
! almost any means.
One army officer said: THE situa-
! tior would have been mucn simpler
had Agufnaldo captured Funston"
DISPOSING OF AGUINALDO.
The question of what to do with
| Aguinaldo it was stated today, would
not be determined in a hurry. 1t
| seemed to be the general impression
| that he should be held as a prisoner
! of war until peace is absolute in the
| islands and then he should be exiled.
probably to Guam, where other insur-
gent leaders await him. There was no
question among the officials that Agui-
naldo could be considered a prisoner of
war, although the attitude of the War
| Department has been that the Tagals
were only banditti or brigands beyond
| the power of civilized warfare. Agui-
naldo can be tried either for the Of
| Tense of treason, civilly, or he can be
dealt with by court-martial. Neither
! of these questions has yet been settled
| and probably will not be settled until
| the whole matter has been discussed
! by the President and the Cabinet.
! While the War Department officials
| expressed the opinion that the capture
! of Aguinaldo might prove to be a trou-
| blesOme question that opinion was Civ
! en- before it was known that AgulnaI-
do had counseled the surrender of all
| the insurgents and acknowledgment of
Americas supremacy. The tone of the
gossip of the early part of the day
| was, therefore, totally changed by the
! later news.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, who led
| the Democratic fight in the Senate
against the Philippine policy of the
Administration and the increase in the
while at the War Department heard
of the confirmation of the news Of the
! capture of Aguinaldo He gave the
| following statement to the Examiner:
THE capture of Aguinaldo will most
! probably have strong influence to-
wards the general pacification of the
| islands. How complete or how perma-
nent this may be it is difficult to con-
clude in the absence OF more definite
| knowledge of the conditions there. The
question of the disposition of Aguinal-
| do may be a more difficult one than
was the feat of his capture. The prob
ability is that he will be sent to Guam,
which has become the American st.
| Helena"