Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-09
WEYLER'S METHODS ADOPTED
Horrors of War as Seen In the
Philippine Islands.
MAY INVITE BLOODY REPRlSALS
Town Burned Because Food
Was Given Rebels.
People Could Not Help Giving Food, as
Refusal Would Have Provoked Violence
SOME Army Officers Favor the Most
Drastic Measures : Coid-blooded senti-
ments.

uUhcpu ouli 1buk tub WhSuluRtou
oorresp ondent OF the Atlanta Constitu-
/. lion, and who is now representing that
paper in the Philippines, writes from
Cebu, under q reoert date. describing
the seyerity OF the measures adopted by
the Americans TO rspfess the insurgents
in that and othor islands. Towns are
being ruthlessly burned, he says; the
natives are being gathered in reconcen-
trado camps, and those who refuse to
come in are to be hunted down. 1.-The
officer commanding the battalion over
on Bphol has tean given instructions to
kill off everybody suspected of conneo.
| tion with the insurgents. He has been
tod that these orders give him the
| widest latitude; that he is not TO be
very particular whether the suspect is
bearing arms or has been; If he ia
| suspect, he is to be treated as an outlaw
and shot down.
Al this, MIR. Oil says, intensites the
feeling Of hatred felt for the Diericans
Some OF the incidents told him are sure
to invite bloody reprisals. Here are
| three, presented as genuine cases
Gen Hughes told me Of the burning
OF one town He SAID it had been found
that the people of that town had enter.
ia ned some OF the insurgents, giving
thom food and aid, The conditions in
cases like this, as they have been told
me by officers, would indicate that the
charge is technically correct. The
people of this village we're waited upon
by rarty OF the Filipinos, who were
armed with guns and bolos They were
informed that the insurgent army eS.
pe1ted SO much rice or corn, So many
chickens and ct tied amount OF money.
il these requests were refused, they
would be very promptly boloed. They
were helpless In tie hands OF th 8
armed band. and, with all the haste
possible, proceeded to produce Then
they were ordered to Join in and give
their pleasant visitors feast. Needless
to say, they did Our soldiers, getting
wind of this act Of giving aid and com
tcrt to The enemy, proceeded to burn
the town-unde., orders, of course The
people who have Inhabited that town
were threatened with death IL they re-
fused the demands Of the insurgents,
and would hare got lit; they have had
! their houses burned over their heads
because they were anxious to save their
own lives.
"a detachment of soldiers went the
other day to a town where there had
been prepared feast, the occasion
beng fiesta Of religious character.
The soldiers ate all there waH to eat,
then burned the town,
"A man living in the country was sur.
prised one day by a lot Of signal corps
men under escort stringing telegraph
wire near his little heine 10 the country.
, de was gratitied becuse he believed
this to be an evidences OF advancement
Of his part Of the country. lie was moi
go happy when he was calmly informed
: that he was expected to guard that wiz,
religiously, aud that IL anything hap
psned to tiff it should he cut-hi.
house would be burned down. Som,
nights later the wire was cut, and 10
yesGiehtion showed il had been cut nea
his house He had not cut It,, for b,
' had too much sense; at least, he hac
! that sense Of self preservation which
4 most men have. Perhaps an enemy o
q bis, LEARNING that he had been ordered
to protect the wire, and the penalty o
4 failure, had sneaked out and cut tn
9 thing, When the wire was repaired, tn
!. soldiers made good their instructions
|. and burned the house of the man ordere,
ia pnrteot tile wire-N
Az to the drastic measures proposed
', and thu temper of those who are t
/, duluEUb tHbtllA ~ ID 6ubuRu u isb Ill
oiceFs speak for themselves as they ar
l. quoted by Mr. OIL:
"Gen. Hughes, who is, OF course
u honestly anxious for peace, holds th
J. firm con lotion that il Is best for tn
!, people of these islands that there shoul
% be pence evon at the cost of the bur
ing Of the homes nf lot Of innocer
% people and the taking OF he lives OF
g lot OF others rather than that th
sr present conditions should prevail.
st " They have had no chance yet
reach an Understanding of the friend
"a purposes OF our government, said
ia in response to one Of my questions.
8, believe that when this thing is crushe
~ out and absolute peace prevails, thel
will be- an opportunity of showing the
n that We are here Tor their good Bus
al ness will revive, the island will
as prosperous, the people will be contentt
"a and happy 1t is first nee essary
Il. stamp this insurreetion out, to kill Q
or capture the peopfe responsible for !
to punish those who have kept it ALI
4, IL by giving aid and comfort to the enem,
y. after that il done, the problem will,
~ believe, be an easy one
~ "a good many of his officers do n
a2ree with him. Col. Crane. his a
= lnthnt-BenefhI, picked up copy OF tl
90 newspaper published here stroI
Vs. Filipino paper, ard his eyes fell upt
w. the words, 'Nuestra idea.
vi % The paper which publishes that Q
preston and The men who utter
as ought to be suppressed, he said.
ne "'Whyf What does IL mean?'
Ter SIT MEANS continued the colunt
ha the idea which is always first in t
'or Filipino MUD the idea OF freedom al
10. Independence. They have it there a
zee there seems no chance to eradicate it
ss- 1.-THE colonel hasn't much faith in {
en- Filipinos ever heing satisfied wi
ity American sovereignty. He hasn't mu
pus respect for these islands and their col
ms mercial possibilities, from an Amsric
stRudpoint IA 3s
for The best thing to do with then
ase said he, would be 10 kill off the col
of and then put bonn under each isla
tho and blow it FROM the face of the earl
is would never leave here however,
10. long as there was one OF these feIlo
Of left to stick his fingers to his nose
US when we were going. p"