The age-herald., 1902-05-07
MORE DETAILS OF
 CRUELTY IN ARMY


 Tayobas province These consisted of al- legations that troops had burned build ings, ill-treatment of natives by Lieut. enant General D. Catlin and rape of five women by soldiers. Senator Lodge stated to the committee that Catlln had been under treatment for deranged mind.
 The witness before the committee to- day was R. V Hughes of Philadelphia, formerly private in Company I. Eighth Infantry. He testified to seeing the water cure administered once to native when the troops were searching for informa- tion He also saw one native knocked down twice by order of Lieutenant Mer- chant and another beaten on the chest with a stick to make them give infor- nation. He said the insurgents engaged In similar work and gave an instance of an American soldier being cut to pieces with bolos. He testified that the native prisoners were well treated, tEe sick cared for and the food furnished very nearly the same as that furnished | the American troops.
 Answering a question by Senator Gull person, the witness admitted that only in
 
 cure and said that he had not seen a | Filipino subjected to harsh treatment aside from the water cure. He qualified l this statement by saying that Filipino l prisoners were, on one occasion utilized to carry officers wives In bamboo chairs several miles from Santa Cruz to Mazda l lena. He told of the burning of native | houses, in one of which was crippled native woman. The order to burn was 1 issued by Lieutenant Merchant. He said that the insurgents engaged In similar work. The sick among the Filipino pris- oners were well cared for. The cablegram from General Chaffee submitted to the committee by Senator Lodge was received at the War Depart ment May and Is is follows:
 Preference to Cable 3 = Secretary of War-To send the following Major Cor nelus Gardeners first letter contained no specification on which I could act From his second letter, however. in order to comply with the present instructions submit, in the form of charges, the 1ol- lowing data which are as complete as possible under the conditions in which am at present situated,
 "Charge-The troops that succeeded the volunteers did not keep up the scouting and patrolling system.
 .Specification-That the troops sta toned in the central towns of Tayabas, towit, Lucban, Tayabas, Lucena ana Saviayo, did In the spring of 1901 for about three months fail to scout or pa- trol the country except as escort to wagon trains on the main road.
 "Charge-Burning of barrios or villages. "Specification-That troops during the fall of 1901 burned number of barrios belonging to Dolores and adjacent towns.
 ''Torturing natives. Specification l. That certain United States troops com ing from San Pablo in or near the town of Dolores, tortured a native by the water cure; this during the summer of 1901.
 Specification 2. Commanding officer of La Guimanoc, during the summer of 1901, tortured or maltreated native boy.
 Specification 3. That troops coming from Lucena or Tayabas on several oc- casions tortured natives belonging to the Pueblo or Pagbilac; this during the sum- mer and fall of 1901.
 "Charge-Harsh treatment of natives.
 "Specification 1. That men belonging to a detachment of soldiers stationed at Candelaria, footed a store in that town about the month of November, 1901.
 "Specification ?. That detachment Of troops took away from a peaceful citizen of Dolores a pony. This about the month of September, 1901.
 Specification B. That the house of a na- tive of Candelaria was forcibly taken for a smallpox hospital and afterward burned by order of the surgeon at Sariaya; that the said native was not remunerated. This In Candelaria in July, 1901.
 "Specification 4. That First Lieut.. George De c. Catlin did strike with his fist natives of Edcena for failing to take off their hats to him and did forcibly, with threats, compel a native to deal cards for him. This about September, 1901.
 "Specfication 5 That First Lieut.. De G. | Catlin did keep in the guardhouse for three days a native without food or wa ter. This about September, 1901
 Specification S. That First Lieut.. George De Catlin did strike natives in the face for failing to remove their hats. This | while he was in command at another post.
 Specification T. That a party of soldiers attacked with pistols three natives work inS on the roads near Luecna. This about | November 1901.
 Specification S. That certain soldiers belonging to a troop of cavalry stationed | in Tayabas pueblo did violate five women of that town by force. This in the month of January or February 1901. These dates are approximate and the facts from complaints made to me stated to the best of my recollection. | "CHAFFEE."
 Senator Lodge also laid before the com mittee list of over three hundred off, cers and enlisted men In the United | States army who have been tried by courtmartial for offenses aginst natives; | also a list of natives tried by military commissions for cruelties to United States | soldiers and violation of the laws of war. |
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