Show TRIED THE W WATER IEk CURE IT II IS M MILD TREATMENT SAN FRANCISCO May fay 28 Capt Palmer Ii Hi a one of or th the officers whose aU alleged ged brutality to Filipinos is under inv investigation b before fore the Senate Committee on the Philippines is in inthis inthis inthis this city on the way was to to Manila ManUa to be a witness at the court martial of Maj 1 Edwin F. F Gl lenn nn Eighteenth nth infantry who is charged with cruelty and other misconduct Ly LyOn n was the the medical officer of of- fleer of the detachment of th the Eighteenth infantry that burned ras mast I land island o of 01 Panay anay and was accused of administering the water cure cUie cure Whole pages in rn newspapers were devoted to the denouncing of ot Dr Lyon but he has has' never be re talked for tor publication Dr Lyon said which va was merely a 1 collection collection col col- cal cal- lection of ot huts was burned because because be be- caU cause the Pre President who had taken th the oath of ot ail allegiance to the United States was the chief of a 11 gang of Filipino assassins assassins as as- who were lying in wait walt and murdering Americans The President is now serving a term in prison I nev never r saw nan a a. brutally treated The water vater cure is not torture torte it is merely discipline I 1 have had the I water cure tried on In myself as an experIment experiment ex ex- I and I know just what it it amounts to I The T e tortures inflicted by Filipinos I on Am American prison prisoners rs are something I frightful C Compared with tile the Filipino the American Indian in his most fiendish fiend fiend- I I I ish lali h mood is a gentleman I All An this controversy conti is the result I of malice and grows out of the fact fart that this EI Eighteenth did most of the work on Panay pansy and won a pro proportionate r I share of the glory I think the Senate Investigating the matter understands unde it thoroughly I talked with Senators Beveridge Dodge e and Dietrich Corp OBrien O'Brien of of the Twenty-sixth Twenty infantry h has hs s tried to malign me Among other things thing'S he said I actually held a loaded revolver to th the head of ofa ofa a 1 Filipino in time of ot war mind you Senator Beveridge said to me Did yop YOl I said I did He sa d Did y u shoot the ther r r Well Ill I'll not tell you what he called the Filipino I said I Iu did not He lie said Wh Why the hell hen didn't you u |