Show I AMERICANS MASSACRE f ri f FILIPINO BRIDAL PARTY I L Special Correspondence Washington Aug W Jones in troop Eleventh cavalry United States volunteers writ writing writing ing from Santa Cru Philippine Is Islands Islands lands to his brother George Jones in Washington D C under date of June 27 describes e of Filipinos in which he took part on June 25 and which he relates as quite in the line of his ordinary duties lie He tells how sixt sixty members of his regiment were out to kill or capture a famous Filipino general to be living in the neighbor neighborhood 1 hood After some rough scouting thee the generals house was located and the Americans crawled through the under underbrush brush until they secured positions but buta a few yards distant Then they ther discovered that they had unwittingly chanced upon a wedding There was a large crowd present to take part Dart in the festivities Most of them of course were women and children but there were about seventy five men present who were armed Th The Americans were ordered to fire a volle volley from ambush and then charge terrible results j which they did with The scene that resulted was born ble writes Private Privat Jones On the I I ground near the house lay Jay the body of the brIde whose brains had bad been blown out The groom who had received a I bullet in the stomach was lying near nearby nearby by in a dying condition Twelve of the I I Filipinos had been killed and about the I i same number wounded Au An elderly woman was shot through the leg and a 1 little child had her arm shot oft I t But adds Private Jones cheer cheerfully I fully we got the old general aU all right I and we burned the insurgents quarters t A before we let left 1 This is the kind of imperial civilization f tion this administration is patiently 1 bringing to the Filipinos and probably i t Jones letter is no not an unfair description description tion of the sort of warf warfare re this great i government is waging against these I t I far away islanders whose only crime j I jIs 0 is their love of liberty In furtherance r 1 I of the just responsibilities of at our vie Ii i tories in the Spanish war It may also be remembered th that t the I C 2 t imperial English troops found good I pig in South Africa i ij j il |