Show SMITH BREAKS LONG SILENCE general charged with cruelties Cruel ties in philippines defends actions portsmouth ohio general jacob 11 II smith ot of simar samar island fame broke bla years of silence friday night and defended tho the course 0 of action which Hrece receded ded jils bis rire merit from the urmy ile caw camj ot of 1902 general smith denied vigorously that li ho had ordered or countenanced the killing ot of women und una children b by y the ho soldiers lie ile said eald he had been with tho the savage tribes ol of the philippines because they had mutilated wounded grounded soldiers and set fire to t 0 their bodies ile he bitterly assailed theodoro theodora poosevelt Hoo sevelt who be h said praised edGen general wood for condu conducting cUng a campaign campal grf along the same lines as tho the speaker had bad followed although the then president had arrayed himself against smith |