Show Gen Otis Joins I Gen Funston and others who knew the American soldier In pronouncing him Incapable of the outrages Imputed to him by the Filipino Fili-pino insurgents In4 the Philippines and in this country No spirit of revenge actuates the American troops In these islands and it is not conceivable that the cruelties charged wete actual committed The stories are pipe dreams of the Filipino Junta and are unworthy unwor-thy of repetition In this country at all much less In the U S Senate where they appear to be the stock In trade of the Democratic orators Of course Gen MacArthur who Is now In this city knows the whole Ins and outs of the matter having been Incommand In the Philippines some two years and he emphatically denounces all stories oC Inhumanity on the pnrt of the soldiers sol-diers saying that the war there has been conducted with almost unexampled unex-ampled magnanimity and consideration for the natives His slat ment that the American people need have no misgivings as to the conduct of their troops In the Philippines Is completely I satisfactory as well as conclusive |