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Show A PHILIPPINE STORY RUN DOWN. On January 3th, there came ln the teleginms a tale from one Clarenco Clowe of Seattle, who told a lurid stoiy of his service In the army, and how the soldiers abused tho natives. Here Is his story, as told In n letter to Senator Honr, lit which nlso Clowo asked "honorable dtnharge from a service that Is outraging his conscience," con-science," nnd alleged Inhuman treatment treat-ment by American soldiers toward nil-plnos, nil-plnos, luvlni; in pait. At on lime I am llubli to be called upon to go nut and bind and gag he!ilss prisoners, to strike them 111 the fan;, in .nmk them down when so bound.to bear them awa) from wile and ihlldren at lh.tr vel door who are shrieking pllla-W pllla-W the whlh. or Kne ling and kllnK the hands ot uui otru.'rs and Imploring merr from those who seem not m know w list ll In. mid then wllh i ciowd of soldlcis. bold our helpless victim s head downward In a tub nf wati'l In his own lardi or bind lilin. hand and fuot. attaching nun's lo luad nnd (hi and then In w mine him Into tie Septus of a well or water, till life Is wrll-nli.li ihokcil out, and the bittern bit-tern ss of tenth ins licen tasted, and our poor, gasping vMlm asks the I'lilled Btatcs for th poir noon of being finished ult. In merti lo tliiinselvis Alt these things huve been done at ono time oi another ti imr men. aeneratly In cases of trlng to obtain Information as to the locution of uiniH and ammunition Not cin It be said lh,it theie Is nn gen. eral irpulelon on the nurt or the enlisted nun taking pait In these doings I regret re-gret to have to siv tlMt, on the rnnlrarv, many soldiers tn'ii- a Keen delight in them, nnd nibh wllh Jo to the making or this latest development of u Itomau holiday. On this story wo commented ns follows fol-lows ut the time, editorially: That soldier, Clarence Clowe, who Is represented In the dleiaitches this morn-lug morn-lug as telling such sensational stories obout cruelties and outrages by Amsrlc.in soldiers In tho Phlllpplnrs, appears to be a very willing and cheerful liar. He Is an Invulld, too, nnd wants his dlsoharge. It Is a good ten-tn-one bet that he has hi en an Invalid during most If not all of his service, and never at the front where the fighting wus 1U should, howevei, i strnln both his tongue and his pan, He should lemembtr that tit country has Pi, my of this kind of talk from high pliccs, and that he Is no United flutes S.mitor. Now comes conoboratlon nf that edl-tuilul edl-tuilul opinion. Carl II. Hard, fanner repot tsr on Tho Tilbune, later n Lieutenant Lieu-tenant In the Thlrly-llfth leglnient, nnd iijvv on the dctectlvo bureau of the I' illio department nt Manila, knew tilts i luiencc Clowe, and has addressed the f Honing ubout hi I to the cdltcr of The Tribune Manila, P J Mnr-h 7, KOl.-lZilXot Trl- b.m' s an example of the fate and , .u hk ''u r',"rt that are continually 1 i k suit In lo persons In thu Inlted ttii.s fgircllni Hilngs in the Islnnds, I Im bis' i i lipping from Tho Tribune s telegraph page of the Issue ot Januar) zsth I tie author ot this bunch ot untruth un-truth was during n portion of Ids enlistment enlist-ment a private In the company of which 1 wes Second Lieutenant. Ills career In the Thirty-firth regiment was a series of sets or Insubordination although he was regarded by most of the officers and men as a little weak In the upper storv. He transferred to company It from my com-psny com-psny because he was not made u noncommissioned non-commissioned officer. Ho was continually stirring up strlf and discord among the weaker anil more Ignorant tnemliers of his company, nnd while a derk In the orrlces of the Adjutant and Quartermaster, was a source or worry lo both the officers until un-til they succeeded In haling hltil relieved. Ho was cotirt'tnartlslcd for an assault on a native woman, and was acquitted on the ground thst he was not ot sound mind It Is from such persons that a majority of the tepoits about "army outrngts," etc, come, mid the only pity Is that there are many In the Htaten who will believe them, I am, jours most to-spoctfully, to-spoctfully, CAM, It. HARD. |