The evening Republican., 1902-04-21
BELL BEHAVED WELL
General Chaffee Joins Presi-
dent In Praise.
MORE SURRENDERS OF INSURGENTS.
General Smith Defends the Troops
Who Campnigned In Samar-He
Remains mt Manila to Face
q Court of INJURY.

MANILA. April 21-General Chaffee
has forwarded to General J. Franklin
Bell the congrat tulations sent the latter
by President Roosevelt upon the re-
cent campaign in Batangas and LII
guna provinces conducted by General
Bell. General Chaffec forwarded the
presidents communication through
General Lloyd Wheaton, and in an ac-
companying letter he expresses his
great pleasure at the receipt by Gener-
al Bell of the presidents congratula-
tiOns. No American troops, says Gen
cral Chaffcc, have before been charged
with a task moro difficult of accom-.
plishment. Only. our comrades in the
island of Samar have campaigncd
under such difficulties. So unique has
been the situation in Batangas and La
Guna. continues General Chat1ec in his
letter. that only person thoroughly
familiar with it by actual contact can
appreciate the conditions which have
been met and overcome or fairly deter
mine what were the best methods to
accomplish the bjccts-namely, the
recognition of the sovereignty of the
United States and the establishment
of peace and order in the disturbed
sections General Chatfcc concludes by
saying that because of General Bells
never failing care Of his troops and his
encouragement to them in their labors
they share in the congratulations from
President Roosevelt.
Surrenders to American authorities
Of small parties of insurgents are re-
ported daily, and these have increased
since the recent surrender of the insur-
gent general Malvar. General Ruiino,
with 2G officers and $40 soldiers. has
surrendered to the native constabulary
mao, where the constabulary are coop
Grating with the military.
The United States transport Buford
has left here for San Francisco. after
having been detained in quarantine for
five days. General Jacob II. Smith,
who was in command of the American
forces in the island of Samar at the
time Ma. .jor l.. W. II. Waller of the ma
rine corps is said to have executed ma
tivcs of that island without trial, was
to nave gone home Oh the Buford, but
has disembarked here.
Orders have been received from
Washington that court of inquiry
into the general conduct Of affairs in
Samar be held. General Smith claims
that to the best of his belief the Off
GERS and men of his command in Sa-
mar had to face insurmOuntabc diff
Cultios, that the hardships they ell
countcred were almost unbearable and
that the treachery Of the natives of the
island is uncGualed in the history Of
warfare. He says that the American
soldiers acted, under the circumstances,
with the greatest forbearance shown
ip the whr in the Philippines. Cam.
paighing in Samar Is not pleasure
trip. but a stern reality, said General /
Smith. He also expressed his doubt If !,
the troops of any nation in the world !
would or could have acted in the cir.
cumstances in Samar as well as did |
the Americans.
The cholera situation shows no I'M
provcment. There. has been total of
1888 cases and 300 deaths in Manila and
S5G cases and 6O2 deaths in the prov.
tnces.