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Show GENERAL KING'S VIEW. Saj the War In the Philippine! ll by no Means Ended. San Francisco, June 3. General Charles King, U. S. V., was among the passengers from Manila that arrived on the City of Puebla. General King, in an interview regardin g the Philippine Philip-pine situation, said: "The situation in the Philippines is most serious. The people of those islands is-lands will keep up a guerrilla warfare, and there is no telling when hostilities will cease. They retire to the fastnesses fast-nesses of the mountains, retreat when they are whipped and hide in the jungles. Subsisting on practically nothing, they have no need of a base of supplies. It will necessitate a large force of men to subjugate them completely. com-pletely. "The war in the Philippines is by no means ended. Their intrenchments are works of military engineering and construction, equal to the best the most civilized military nations have procured. pro-cured. Under the Spanish regimes the Filipino learned something of war, and we are receiving evidence of this every day. "The volunteers who fought in the Philippines are a splendid lot of men, capable and accomplished fighters. They behaved like veterans when under un-der fire, and there is no limit to their courage. Their record in that awful country will adorn pages of American history recently made and yet unwritten." |