The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-09
TELLS OF OPERATIONS
IN THE PHILIPPINES
General Macarthur Reports His
Work in the Islands.
REBELLION Is ABATED
NUMBER KILLED ON BOTH SIDES
DURING A YEAR.

/ the Philippines, has been received at /
/ the war department. The period COW
/ cred by the report is from Oct. /, 1900, /
when the last report from General (
] Macarthur was dated. He reviews the /
| policy of the FilipinOs hostile TO the 1
/ Americans, saying that their action I
/ since the practical collapse Of the in (
! surrection has been a perplexIng prob /
! lem.
/ With the disbandment of the insur-
sent field armies the FiiiDinOs organ |
/ lied desperate resistance by banding |
/ the people together in support of the /
! gueTrillas. This was carried out by /
/ means Of secret committees, who col |
/ lected -cOntri buttons, inflicted punish /
| ments and carried on a considerable /
] opposition to the Americans
I General Macarthur reviewed the !
/ manner in which operations were car |
| ried on against the guerrillas, and says
I he hopes the policy adopted will IN time
/ cOnciliate the natives and make them I
/ friendly to the United States The edu-
/ cation of the people in times past m &c /
/ them suspicious Of any governmental, |
/ benefcence, and they evidently |
/ the United States as indicating weak
/ ness
/ General Macarthur says the procla- (
nation issued on Dec. p firmly declar /
| ing the intention of the United States
| TO hold the islands and to have the
/ laws obeyed had a good effect, and the
/ secret assistance was much abated.
Operations ne the Army.
/ A considerable portion of tue report
] is devoted TO the field operations of the
| army. showing that on Oct. :. 1900, II
I occupied 413 stations. which was OF ne
/ cessity increased to 500 stations, every
/ command being in contact with some
! hostile force. He speaks of the good
/ service Of the army, and says as re-
/ suit of the cooperation between the
army and the people who have accept
ed the invita- ton to combine for mutual
I protection, the armed insurrecriOn Is al
most suppressed.
General Macarthur gives the follow
ing Statistics from May D. 1900, to June
. go 1901, during which time there were
/ 1,026 contacts between American troops
/ and insurgents, which show the casual
ties on both sides:
Americans-Kined, 245; wounded. 400;
I captured, rs; missing, 20
/ Insurgen- s-Killed, 2,S54; wounded,
1,192; captured, 6,572; SURRENDERED, 20
O9s.
During the same period the following
/ material was captured or surrendered
from the insurgents: Rifles, 1863: rifle
/ ammunition. $50. 800 rounds, TeVOV'erS,
SOS: bOlos. 3,516: cannon, 122; cannon
I ammunition, 1920 rounds.
At the date of the present report
I there was 10 embodied rebel force IN
Luzon above the Pasig river In the de-
!
/ excepting the island of Samar and IN
the department of Mindanao and Jolo
all the rebels had submitted and been
dfsarmed IN southern LuzOn disor-
ders stiil continued in several prov
inces. but were diminishing in force
Serious questions viii arise from time
to time, General Macarthur says, IN
Nindanao and JOlo. the adjustment OF
which will depend largely upon facts
and knowledge of Moro character.
Capture of Aguinaldo.
General Macarthur says the capture
of AsninaldO may be regarded as the
most momentous single event of the
year. Speaking particularly of Agui-
naldO. he says that the important i'm
mediate results and the remote conSe-
quences make it the important event
! which he characteriZeS il. He calls ii a
unique, Isolated military transaction.
The capture dispelled the growing ten
{ dency to idealize Aguinaldo's person
ality and to surround him with myth
iCaI Legends of invincibility, which mil
/ lions of natives believed to be true. and
70 which ultimately would insure success
for the rebellion. AguinaldO was the
incarnation of the Instruction His
- death would have magnided the legend
: which surrounded him. while his cap
1 ture has dispelled "A great deal OF the
I fictitious value he had.
! After discussing the various cOnten-
tons regarding the friars, General Mac
e Arthur SAYS: Properly speaking, and
in q. broad scope, there is no church IN
p the Philippines Under conservative
o procedure. and if no extra cOnstitu-
Z tiGnaE method is involved, there is moth
. ing presented OF serious import or cal
2 culated to cause any considerable pub
s lie concern.
Opposed to Chinese.
e. General Macarthur says the Filipino
q viii work when properly paid, ana the
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as has been claimed. He recommends
the gradual decrease Of the Chinese now
in she islands.
Accompanying the report of General
J Macarthur are reports of the staff Of
fcers, the officers commanding the va
rious departments in the archipelago,
together with the reports of military
and civil officers in the islands.
Colonel 5. W. Groesbeck, judge advO-
. / cate of the division OF the Philippines,
. says that since Sept. I, 1900. seventy
nine natives have paid with the death
, penalty the debt of murder, arson, as
. sassinatiOn and treachery, while eighty
! nine others sentenced for similar Of
7 lenses are serving terms Of life impTis-
| onment
Colonel Charles r. Greenleaf. chief
surgeon. says the health of the troops
I continues 10 be good and the ratio of
I ! non-effeCtives has decreased. Service
in the Philippines shows on a grand
: scale the operations of the law of the
survival of the fittest. The most Sc
r1Ous feature, according to Colonel
4 ] GreenIeaf, is the steady increase in
: veneraI diseases among the troops
showing from 8-97 per cent in Septem-
Der. 1900. an increase to S0.4z per cent
in April this year. He says that there
is not much disability among the sol
diers from alcoholism.
T. Major General Lloyd Wheaton. COM
: man sing the department Of northern
: Luzon, says guerrilla warfare has been
& practically suppressed. He adds, The
humanity Of the troops engaged IN the
Z | endeavor to bring order out of chaos
4 of robbery, rapine and murder, has No
+ parallel in the history of dealing with
g Asiatics."
IS Slavery in Jolo.
q Brsgadisr General ". A. Kobbe. com
l. handing the department of Mindanae
and JolO. says. regarding slavery
Slavery, as the term is usually under
stood. does not exist among the Moros
and radical and comprehensive meas
, ures to abolish It would. at this time
- be premature and Ineffective. Tn
D. slaves and masters belong to the sam
& race and live on equal terms. Tt ha
l. been impossible II obtain any inf0rma
d ton regarding the number Of slave
held anywhere.
p Major .. !. Sweet. Twenty-third in
y fantry. reporting from the Third dis
to trfct OF General KObbe's department
a SAYS that slavery. although not recog
ID nized BIZ the United States, is still
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