Show S GARDENER INQUIRY Major Continues His Testimony Before Be-fore the Board Manila Juno 23 tThio board which Inquired In-quired Into the clmrrres of cruelty etc brought by Maj Cornell Gardener Governor of the province of Tayabas against American officers and soldiers beIng desirous of completing Its sittings hold a session today ISIaJ Gardener continuing his testimony testi-mony said ho had considered his original report to bo strictly cnnridenilnl and for Secretary of War ttool and since he wroto this report and during the present Investigation ho hud heard testimony which ho presumed to be true which had ho hrnrd before inluht have caused irm materially to havo altered his repeL lie said that insurgent troops might hnvo bcon temporarily disbanded and hidden and no one cxcipl themselves cognizant of their existence Uccurdlng the nllcscd cases of outrage committed by l lhve soldiers Maj Gardener still he did not ilcslre to bring these charges before the board and that they probablv wero not true although he had made Ills report In good faith aa the original affidavit is proved Regarding ihc I charge that American soldier in the summer and fall of IfI had administered the water euro to natives na-tives Maj Gardener stud thut he received re-ceived Information to that effect from deputations of citizens from towns near which the euro was said to have been Given |