The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-01
WHAT MILES SAW
REPORT OF THE LiEUTENAN
GENERAL is MADE
PUBLIC.
CONDITIONS IN PHILIPPINES
MANY INSTANCES OF CRUELTlEs
PRACTlCED ON FlLlPlNOS
REPORTED.
NATIVE GUIDES ARE MURDERED
MAJ. GLENN ACCUSED OF CAOS'
ING THE DEATH OF FILIPINO
PRISONERS.

the Philippines was made public yes
terday by the war department. 1t is
dated Feb. 10, 1903, and cOver all
features of his trip through the ISL
ands. together with his recommends
tons. Of the Moros, Gen. Miles says:
The problem of reducing or con
trolling these people in case of con-
tinued hostilities does not appear to
be a difficult one. They are very poor
ly armed and have no means OF with
standing our mountain artillery and
field mOrtars.'
The general four coo of our soldiers
at work on the roads to Lake LanaO.
Troops should not be required to do
such work, he says, except in case of
great military necessity, which does
not now exist.
The condition of the troops, he says,
is a credit to the country. The climate,
however, has a very facilitating effect
on the men. Gen. Miles says that as
d lSSulI VI hlo obSVI NdIloIo hS 10 vi
the opinion that the discOntinuance of
the liquor feature of the canteen has
been beneficial to the troops.
The number of troops that will be
required to occupy the Philippine ISL
ands is still problematical. While it
is claimed that the people are pacifed,
evidences of hostility toward Ameri-
can sovereignty are apparent.
OF the supplies furnished the troops,
he says: "While the supplies as a
rule have been abundant and of good
quality, there is, in my opinion, too
much cold storage meat used for the
good of the troops"
OF the condition Of the people he
says: "On my journeys through the
archipelago | was frequently appealed
to to assist the people to obtain a food
supply, of which they are sorely in
need. | do not think there is to-day a
people so sorely afflicted as the $780,
600 of inhabitants of this archipelago.
Their country has been devastated by
war and several provinces are now
suffering severely as the result Of re-
concentration in the past. In some
places locusts have destroyed the
crops. Pestilence has prevailed, re-
sulting in the reported death of near
ly 5000 people, while it is estimated
that the number not reported is fully
as large"
At Lelpsa a party of citizens met
him and complained of harsh treat
ment. They said they had been con-
centrated in towns and had suffered
great ~indignities; that fifteen of their
people had been tortured by the water
cure and that one man, a respected
citizen named Vincento Luna. aged
sixty-five, while suffering from the eff
fects OF torture, was dragged from his
house, which had been set on fire. and
was burned to death. These atrocities,
Gen. Miles was told. were committed
by a company of scouts under Lieut..
Hennessy.
Other alleged cases of atrocities are
referred to. In Cebu it was reported
that Capt. Samuels of the Fourth in
fantry of United States volunteers.
and Lieut.. Foster of the Nineteenth
Infantry, had committed similar acts
against the people of that island.
Gen. Miles also heard a report that
at Laoag, Luzon, two natives were
Hhipped to death.
At Tacloban, Leyte. the general
heard that Maj. Glenn ordered Lieut.
Caulfeld to take eight prisoners into
the country and if they did not guide
him to the insurgents camp he was
o to bring them back. Separated
into two parties, the prisoners, while
tied together, were shot or ~bayoneted
A p%retense was made, the report said
that they were killed hile'attemptine
to escape.
Further along in his report Gen
Miles refers to what he calls "Glenn's
Brigade" which moved from place e
place for the purpose of extortine
statements by means of torture. Gen
Miles says:
whether it was possible for officers
to be engaged in such acts without tn,
persona ! knowledge of the genera
upon whose staff they were serving a
the time. namely. Brig. Gen. Hughes
I l leave this for others to conjecture.
; II found that with certain officer
: the impression prevailed that sucl
! acts were justifable and | felt it m
duty to address to the division com
mander a letter of instructions.
! THE letter is in the form of an OF
> der directing that any orders or Gil
; culars Of personal instruction, whic'
would inspire or encourage any act Q
cruelty, be annulled."