The Jasper news., 1917-07-12

ton and numbers of the Moros without
being seen.
At last General Pershing announced
that If the Moros did not surrender
within four days he would storm the
position. Two days later ninety of
the men came down the side of the
mountain and surrendered. Hunger
had shattered even Moslem fanaticlsm,
and thoughts of heaven had given
away before the pangs of empty stom-
achs. They were disarned and set at
liberty. The same afternoon $50 more,
men and women both, struggled into
camp and gave themselves UP. BY
nightfall almost five hundred of the
Moros had thrown themselves on the
mercy of the Americans.
When the Four Days Were Up.
At the end of the four days General
Pershing ordered an advance. The
crater itself was found to be deserted,
but band of almost one hundred men
had hidden in the jungle They tried
to break through the Gordon of troops
on the east side of the mountain, and
so fierce was the fighting that Captain
Barber was wounded by shot fired so
close to his body that It burned his
clothing.
Those of the band who were not
killed were driven back into the crater,
and although they attempted several
times In the night to break through
the line, not man escaped. All the
available troops surrounded the piece
Of jungle in which the Moros were
hiding, and 1t was only n question of
time before they would be annihilated.
At this juncture an aged datto APP
pealed to General Pershing, declaring
that he could persuade the rebels to.
surrender. Always willing to spare
bloodshed where it was possible, Per-
shing told him to do his best but
made 1t perfectly plain that the sur
render must be unconditional.
For two hours the datto paced back
and forth in the jungle calling In the
native dialect to his people. At last
they answered and he persuaded them
to surrender. Only forty-five were
left. They marched down the noun
tainside and laid down their arms, sew
eral automatic pistols among them,
and were sent TO Jolo, where they
went aboard the cutter Samar and
| were taken to Zamboanga and spent
| some time In the Cnlarian prison.
1t broke the back of the Moro pow
er in the Philippines. The dattos new
er became menace again.
Became Major General.
In January, 1916, having endeared
himself alike to the hearts of the Fill
plnos and Americans In the Islands,
General Pershing returned to the Unit
ed States and was placed In command
of the Eighth brigade of the regular
| army, with headquarters at Ell Paso.
| There he remained until the villa raid
on Columbus, N. NJ, when President
| Wilson placed him In command of the
flying punitive expedition into Mexico.
That this expedition did not turn out
to be more punitive was not General
Pershing's fault.
General Pershing was under orders
and In communication with the war de-
partment all the time, and the way In
which he handled the Mexican problem
met with the full approval of President
Wilson. Pershing can be diplomatist
as well as a soldier.
General Pershlng's men regard him
In the most kindly manner. Were he
In command of French troops they
would doubtless call him Papa" Per-
shing, as they do the great marshal of
France, but he is over American boys,
and to them there is more endearment
In the terms "Bia"k Jack" and "FIght-
Ing john