| Show TIIU lUI IN I HAMAH RA Jt C Rf t S H 8 S OConnor Americans Cant Conceive of Treachery There New York Oct 8 S S g OCon OConnor OConnor OConnor nor a n former captain In III the Ninth reg meg regiment regIment of ot the national guard who has just returned from the Philippines where ho did service as os a captain In Inthe time the volunteer Infantry said In an Interview upon tipon the tho subject t of ot the time massacre of the Ninth United States Infantry on tho the Island l land of at Sn Sa inane maar The Tho American people can form torm no Idea of the time treachery trencher of ot the natives Thoy The Tho have been beell likened to the Amend Ameri American can Indian but the comparison does not do justice to their rapacity for tor betray betrayal al nl Such n a 1 bod of lighters fighters as tho tio Ninth Infantry are arc n never ver would have havo beep beer caught In such a trap rap by the In diane The Indians never have learned learn to play the tho friend like the time Filipino A 11 soldier In the time west rn plains would bo tio boon beon on his bits guard ginned aln always ays against the red redskins redskins redskIns skins but they annot dissemble They may runty ambush you ou anti ami rush you OU at nt night but hut they the dont know how to play the time amigo trick as did the Filipinos That tho the Filipino Is ts a past master In treachery I soon learned after get getting getting t ting Into the Held field over there Conse Consequently I decided to be as severe as IlS possible I was ivas provost marshal In several towns and apparently was un tin unduly unduly duly harsh harah but I 1 found that the only way to meet the natives As an nn Illus Illustration tra I will III say that tha t in ono onu of o the towns couth of ot Manila lIall II a there Was its villi a barber named Lorenzo who did a n flourishing business bUln ss the soldiers patronizing his hla pined pinel generously He lIe appeared to bo ho thoroughly loyal loal I dont suppose suppo su there was any an one in the town we WI suspected led less than he He lie spoke used to tell us how much Oed American rule itile would do dothe dothe dothe the people One night a ft I raid was made on n a hot bed of ot Insurgents Among the prisoners taken token with rifle In hand was M Mour our ott barber Then It came out that af of after atter ter em working In his shop all nil day he would go to rebel camps nt at night and disclose whatever r Information he had gleaned from his mis soldier r customers dur ing the tho day clay |
