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Show GEN. SMITH CONDEMNS M ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE. M Portsmouth. O., Feb. ". General J. PH H. Smith, of Samar island fame, broke H his years of silence last night and H defended the courso of action whlchj H preceded his retirement from ths BH armv. follnwlnir his mpmnrnblr rntn- HlRl paign cf 1902. PH Gen. Smith denied vigorously that H he had ordered, or countenanced, tho killing of women and children by his jH boldicrs. He said he had heen severo H uiih the savage tribes of the Philip- H pines because thoy had mutilated, M wounded soldiers ahd set fire to their H bodies. H He bitterly assailed Theodore Roos- IfH evelt who, he said, praised General H Wood for conducting, a campaign M along tho same lines as the speaker H had cause, although the then presl- M dent had arrayed himself against kH Smith. fH net IH |