The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-20
WHITE LEADERS
 OF SAVAGE HORDES Have Deserted Civilization
 Never to Come Back TRAITORS IN A WAY The Most Remarkable of All Rene gades Is Famous Santa Teresa"
 Who Lead Yaquis-Some
 Other Examples.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 It will be strange indeed if it is not discovered before the present frontier campaign in India between the British and natives Is over that at least one white man is fighting for the zakka Khels against the British troops. In all most all the wars which the forces of civilization wage against those of bar barism some white men, traitors to their kind, are to be found fighting pn the side of the savages.
 I fought in the ranks of the Eighth infantry In the Philippines during the Aguinaldo instruction. and man in my company deserted to the enemy. The reason was that he had fallen in love with a Filipino girl. the daughter of one of Aguinaldo's chief lieutenants. His in- fatuation was stronger than his oath of fealty
 He was given command of a party of 'bolomen" by the rebel leader. These "bolomen," so named from the long cruel knife they carried, were savages of the most bloodthirsty type whose Idea of warfare was midnight murder.
 The renegade became worst than the worst of them, and won an evil name for himself even among the Filipinos. Some of the fearful atrocities he perpetrated on American prisoners who fell into his hands could not even be hinted at in print.
 At last he was captured by detach- ment during Gen. Jake Smiths 'kill-and- burn" campaign In Samar. He was shot the same day.
 I narrowly escaped being one of the firing party. I was assigned for the pur- pose, but the brother of a soldier he had murdered begged for my place. and was given it.
 One of the most remarkable traitors to civilization in recent years was a French officer named Captain Voulet.
 After a distinguished career in French West Africa, he went Fantee.' Revolt ing against the French authorities In 1S99 he led a large body of native troops un- der his command into the bush" and made war his own account against several petty native kings with great success.
 Inspired by the wonderful career of Rabah, the ''black Napoleon" then just closed. he aimed at founding a great na- tive state and ruling over it. He even induced another officer Lieutenant Chan oine, to join him.
 French troops were sent against them, but they fought them, killing an officer and some men. Eventually. after com hitting some terrible atrocities, Voulet and Chanoine were set upon and massa- cred by their own soldiers
 Slatin Pasha and Father Ohrwalder, in their books describing their captivity among the Mahdists, both speak of 0 crazy Fenian who managed to make his way to Omdurman and offer his sword to the Khalifa.
 He was regarded with a mixture of sus- , picon and contempt, and at last perished miserably in the pestilential dervish town. The Dutch, In their century-long war in Achin, the Portuguese in East Africa. the Brazilians in their vast hnterland, and every other civilized people that war against savages have found white men fighting in the ranks of their foes, and. of course, have given them short shift.
 But the most remarkable of all these renegades to civilization was the famous Santa Teresa" a white woman, who for many years led the Yaqui Indians in their successful guerrilla campaigns against the pick of the Mexican troops She was, in her way. modern Joan of Arc. She was worshipped almost as a goddess by the Indians, and she made them abstain from the atrocities usually associated with savage warfare and show mercy to prisoners
 For this she was pardoned by the Mex ican government when 1t eventually cap tured her and was allowed her full lib- erty after a short imprisonment.