Show I MUST SUFFER DEATH i Filipino Officer to Die for Barbarous Massacre Washington Nov 1SThe records of a score or more courtsmartial Crma ln of Filipinos charged with murder and l other crimes have been received at the War department from the Philippines Probably the most interesting case Is that of Francisco Braganza Major in the Insurgent army who ordered the massacre of 103 Spanish prisoners in February 1DOO and who now has been I sentenced to death for his crime J Gen Chaffce made an unusually long I review of this case characterizing the wholesale destruction of life as the t I most barbarous and revolting massacre of helpless prisoners known to the modern mod-ern history of war mo He calls attention to the fact that the I chiefs of the Insurgents thefr t1 thef most to prevent the United States from fulfilling Its obligation to fulln 1t oblraUon employ Us I best efforts to return the Spanish pris oners In the hands of the Filipinos to Spain I was upon the approach of a detachment of American troops that this Filipino officer ordered the massa masa ore of helpless Spaniards In his chas In what manner this cruel policy could polcy cul servo the cause of the Insurrection says comprehension Gen Chaffec passes ordinary |