The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-12-03
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Tihs's Erisnis Say 10 is a Military Gsuius
General at 10, He Conquered tie spaniards
IN Northern Lu.on With Inferior Mum.
bars Dealt Out Picturesque Justice
Career Cut Short by Uncle SAN.
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ings at Manila sits young
- Filipino, not quite twenty
Esa t9I four. dark even for ma
tive, thick Tipped, but with
intelligent features. Carefully he pores
pver the official papers before him.
A quiet, modest young native he
seems. but few of his fellow country.
men have had a more strenuous life or
20 brilliant a career: certainly no other
Of his years. For this Is the eX-insur-
gent chief. the famous guerilla leader
General Tino, who was Colonel at
eighteen, a General Mt nineteen. and
1t twenty conquered Northern Luzon
from the Spaniards and brought it un'
der native control.
This lad, also. for over year defed
the new commander Of the United
States Army, General s. B. NJ. Young,
when the latter was Military Governor
Of Northern Luzon. No other insur'
gent leader gave General Young half
the trouble that this boy did.
Tines character is strange one.
His enemies among his own people are
numerous. some call him cruel and
bIeodthirsty, some weak and foolish,
and others denounce him as IN un-
scrupulous brigand.
His friends maintain that he has
within him all the possibilities OF a
Napoleon. Tino. at twenty -one, they
say. several times defeated 4 Spanish
army several times outnumbering his
own forces, while Napoleon was four
years older when he simply captured
d fort. Napoleon, they further con-
tend, had behind him Europe's best SOL
diers; Tino fought with a ragged bat
TALON Of raw recruits who never be-
fore had flred a gun. Napoleon was
trained tactician; Tino rose from civil
life. from the schoolroom.
The most warlike CT the Filipinos
hive been the Tagalogs. This is not
because their natures are more as-
sressive. but because Manila, which
was the centre of Spanish tyranny. is
the heart Of the Tagalog district. Op-
preston has made them what they are.
Tino is Tagalog, born in the Prov
ince Of Cavite, as was Aguinaldo
When the first insurrection against the
Spaniards broke out, in 1897, Tino. then
a mere schoolboy. Joined the insur-
gents, and so distinguished himself
for bravery and military skill that
Aguinaldo, In rapid succession. raised
him to O Colonelcy and then conferred
on him the rank Of Brigadier-Generai
and made him one of his personal ad-
H:sers.
Later, when the Tagalog chief was
banishei to Hong Kong, Tino went
with hin. Thus they became warm
personal friends.
When the Americans, in 1898 brought
Aguinaldo back to his native land Tino
accompanied the chief, and joined him
in conQuering the Tagalog territory
from the Spaniards, whose garrisons
were driven northward, where they
gathered into quite an army. Then,
when Aguinaldo had established him
self in Malelos, near Manila, he said tc
limo:
I "Take SOC men and march north"
f, The boy General obeyed. Without
taking time to drill the 500 peasants
given him he struck out on his marcn'
fighting every day. beating back the
.Spaniards and conQuering each town
he advanced on.
As his soldiers fell he replaced them
With other peasants. recruited from
the country through which he marched.
The prisoners he took he sent pach
south under escort Of bolo mea-nihtia
armed only with long knives. At 10
time did his army number over sOo.
+, His march was uuinpeded BY any
serious resistance on the part OF the
snaniards until hereached the banks OF
a large river that divides the Province
of Ijn,on from Tiocas Str. over 2oo
miles north from Manila. Here the
Spaniards had determined ID make one
last stand
Fhey numbered about 1900. were
armed with modern Mauser rifles ana
were under command Of old, experl.
epeed officers. Several companies Oh
the Ninth Cazadores, SPANS hnese
colonial troops, made up the force.
On the banks Of this river STANDS tne
town of Tasudin. There the river IS
several hundred yards wide. and nluch
too deep to be forded. On the iar
bank the Spaniards threw up efrth-
works that stretched half Lii oil
either side Of the ferry.
On came the boy General WITH ms
mob Of Filipino patriots armed Win
old.fashioned rifles ami less than
hundred captured Mausers. Arrived at
the river. he was met by the foi!c!S
OF The Spanish troops.
He knew that it was useless to make
8 frontal attack. In one night nc
marched up his size of the river ten
UiIes where he forded. and by dawn