The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-28
THE MATTER COMMON 3
4 ss5 TALK OF OFFICERS
Those High Ii Q Command Must Have
Known Of the Crueltles Practlced,
Says General Miles---Men Held as ss5
n Prisoners and Made! to Buy zs 54is
4 Rice al Enorrnous @
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WAsHINGToN,8 April q. The extended
report OF Lieutenant General N. "A. Miles.
concerning his observations In the Phil
ippines. was made public to-day, by tho
War D epartment. It Is dated February
+ 10, 1906. J. and covers all features Of his
"trip. through the islands. together with
Shis Recommendations General Miles de-
scr1bes q visit to Lipa, where he says q
party Of citizens head,,d bS the acting
president. mat him and tatsd that they
desired toBmake complaint Of harsh treat
ment OF the people OF that community,
saying that they. had been conc
In towns and had suffered great 3indigna-
ties gsthat fifteen or their people had
/ been tortured by what Is kliown as the
water torture. md that on mar. = n. hig nlyi
respected citizen. a ged \ sixty FIVE years
s named \ Vincente Luna. while d suffering
from the effects $of the torture and ,ln-
conscious, was dra agged from hlT 4 house,
which had been set Bon h fire. and burned
to "a
They gstatsd that these atrocities were
committed by a company o scouts under
command Of Lieutenant Hennessy. and
that tstheir$people had been crowded Into
town, GOO heing 6 confined to- one building
"a doctor Of the par said Il he was ready q
Ito testify that some OF the six hundred
! died from suffocation 5s !. l5l
as& General Miles then refers Y to- other
cases, saying that on the Island OF Cebu
1t was reported and published In Noveln-
fber, 1902, THAT two officers Captain
samucls, Forty-nfth Infantry, U. s. Vol
#unteers, and Lieutenant eeter, M ne-S
teenth Infantry. had committed similar mi T
atrocities against the people Of that ISIS
and. 1t II Is also reported S that a I
II ELaoag, on the island of LUXOR, two ma
%tives were whipped to death. AT tn clo-
ban. 1.eyte, 1T was reported that Major
Glenn ordered Lieutenant Cdulfeld. Phil
sippine Scouts, to take eight prisoners out
into the country and that Il they did not
guide him to the camp OF the Insurgent
4 Quison, he was not to bring them back.
1T was stated that he men were taken
out and that they either did not or
could not do as directed, One OF the men
who had a son among the scouts was
spared, but the others were shot or bay
soIieted to death, some being In a kneeling
position at that time S
WATER TORTURE 8
s...At Calbayog. samar.sgit was reported
that several. men In II hat district had
been subjected to water torture, I5saw.
three men who had been subjected to this
treatment, One was the president Of the
town. Mr.. Rozales, who showed me long.
deep scars on his arm. which he said
were caused by the cords with which
4 he wnss bound cutting into his flesh he,
second man 3Waa named Jose Borja. and
the third was Padre Diazens who stated
that he was one Of three priests whnFhad
been subjected to torture by tho troops!
under command Of Lieutenant GauJot,
Tenth Cavalry; that his front teeth had
been Knocked out, which was apparent;}
that he was otherwise naltreated and
robbed OF three hundred dollars. It was
stated that these priests We're taken out
4 to be killer and were saved only BY the
prompt action of Major Carrington,g First
Infantry. who sent out for them. Lieuten-
ant Gaujot was tried. pleaded and was
round guilty and given the trivial som
tence OF three months suspension from
his command ana forfeited $50 per month";,
Ills pleading guilty prevented further do
5velopments ii II I
1T appears that Major Glenn, Leuten-