| Show Miles Report Ma Made de Public at ot Length on Water Cure Cases Evidently Giving Credit Credi to Lo Stories Told film Case of Three tri Rice Ilce Deals Gen Davis Davi Makes Reply U I I I Washington April 27 The war r de department today toa mude public that thai hoc por portion lion tion ton of oC the tho Ira report of at Gem don Miles M leJ which refers to misconduct of ot officers soldiers In this the Stoy cy Hoot has iut received several sever I requests ts for tor or this thin report some coins ROmE of at them from fro rota h persons in Boston Doston who stated that It I contained much matter mater that never neer had lund been brought out rut In the tire investigations The hl secretary has held lucid that such reports I w core ire confidential In tinier order that tire thc of ot officer i liter eer making them thorn might bo be free Cree to tomake tomile tomake make mile such comments as us he desired but hut butas butas as ns It I was learned that Gen Oen Miles had no objection to the publication of ot tin thu tl report rell It has linus been made public with witha wih a I brief comment by Den Oen Davis Judge jU lu advocate General who his hs hs charge cholo of If all ni matters pertaining to the subjects subject referred to In this lila portIon of ot tire re ru report port rolt Tho Thu ho statements made mide by 1 Ge Miles leA are arc the tue rosult of or iris his hl tour of In Inspection II In the tine Philippines last hurst autumn and arid winter win tel MILES IES l H Gen Ion Miles report on his Philippine observations Is dated diled Fob Feb I eL 19 1903 arid Ind IndIs Is addressed to the secretary of was war walle He Ito le says Ins that lint In going from froni to In tn November last bout ho ito 10 no rio noticed 10 tired that tire the country countr appeared desure toed and that tire the people were vary sery er muck much depressed Stopping at he ht says rays nl a 1 party Jl 11 of ot headed by U stat Mat Mated stated tim thu acting rust met him bins arid and ed Id that thy they desired to 10 tanks make of ot hand treatment of the tue people of f that mat community they had lied been con rated In towns anti and hued had mif suf IUt groat eat indignities tint that 15 Ii of ot their people hUd hind been bren tortured by what l I is known as ns the tire water waler torture and ant thAt one man nian highly respected citizen aged a aged rd C years ear named n med Vicente Luna Iuna whilst suffering from the effects of or the tor torture ture turo arid and unconscious wax wal dragged f Crom i om his Iris house winch which had irod hal beers been set seton let on Orr 01 tire flie tre and was burned to 10 death Ileath They stated that these thele atrocities were com corn committed by b a company com pal of at scouts under command of ot Hennessey 1 I I lIStY and Ind that their people mad had been boen crowded into Itlo towns lown tOO COO CO luring being confined In hr one oe build building lug ing In A doctor of ot the tire party parI salt said ho hI was scull ready In read y to testify that sonic some of o tire th COO ro died from Crol rosa suffocation len Miles Mike says Eiyo he looked at nt the tIre building which was WM one story loy In height I 1 I IS or OP 20 feet It wide and possibly GO CO or orjO ID feet long Ji th asked l lcd forte fora foT I written I statement to tab warded him at Manila but hut says hu ire never rEver received It and adds GOT 00 NO WRITTEN STATEMENT ST A I 1 have no reason to disbelieve their statements In fact the tire Instances of torture as In the case of oC the man Luna Limo having been tortured 1 and Ind burned to death are confirmed by b other reports Concerning the tire failure to receive the he statement Gen Gon Miles says Whether any an was brought to bear belr to 10 prevent their statement either by per persuasion suasion or coercion I nm rim not trot prepared to say ay at n t the tire present time linus Gen Oel Miles Mits then refers to other cases saying that on tire the Island of oC Cebu it I was WM reported and arid published In Novem Noem November trot ber bel 1902 that two tsu Capt Sam Sani Samuels Sal tide Infantry United Unie States volunteers and Vector Keeter l Eighteenth nth Infantry hud had hlll committed similar atrocities against tho tIre people of ot that island It I Is also all reported tint that at II Ilag on our tire the Island two na ira natives ni lives tives were whipped to 10 death At Facio ban Leyte It reported that Glenn ordered order d Philip Philippine pine Irine scouts fronts to 10 take eight prisoners out Into the country and that If it I they tire the did lid not guide gide him to the tire camp of at the tire Insurgent Insurgent gent he ire was not to bring them back It I wua WIS stated that the tire men were taken out and aird ali that halt thit they may either ether did dIe not notor notor notor or could not nt do tb as directed One Ono of ot tire the themen thomen men who mad hall u a son among the scouts was spared spare but the others were sep rep separated arted Into two parties Jl I es numbering three or four respectively arid and while tied lied led together were nil al li murdered by be ius being b bIng ing log shot or to 10 some Connie being In a kneeling position olton at that time The pretense was wn made tint that they were killed while attempting to escape but so 80 far as IR I know no 10 report WIS ever made mado of tire the circumstance These facts have been reported r by ly MaJ Watts who Investigated the tue case civilian scouts Hamos Preston Corn Cor and McKeon McKen were participants SAW SIt WATER CURE cum VICTIMS At Samar It was reported that hat several men In that district had I been subjected to the thus water torture 1 saw sal three men who had been subjected subell to 10 this treatment One Oure was WM the tire prod of at the town Mr ll who showed me long deep deell scars rears ers on his iris arms arm which winch lie ire said ld were caused bythe bythie cords with whir wih which he was bound bun cutting Into Inlo his flesh fesh The second man was wan named nm Jose lose Borja and the third was Padre I Jose JOfe who stated he lie wee was WI one on of ot I three prIests Injects who had been subjected to torture by I the troops under tinder command of t f Tenth cavalry that hat his iris front teeth had been blen knocked out which was WIS apparent that he was WIS other otherwise otherwise wise irise maltreated and a nil robbed of ot sa MO It I wars wan stated staled that the thee these e priests had bad been taken out to 10 be killed and were only saved by the tire prompt action of oC FIrst Firt Infantry who sent out for toi them HIIm Gaujot waa Ip tried tre pleaded guilty ull and was wal given the tire triv trivial trl ial lal sentence of oC three months month montu suspension from torn forfeiting JW II 10 pf per Jr r month for or the same period perlo Ills 1 plead pleading ing guilty prevented all al tire the facts and nd circumstance being developed GLENNS OLE NS It I appears that MaJ laj Glenn Gann Conger and erich a party of a and anti native scouts were Mere moved from place to 10 Place ulace for the PUrPOSe of extorting statements by ly means of torture and It I became blame M so t notorious that hat this party was called raie Glenn Glenns brigade Whether It I was wai 1 for officers otter to b be engaged l d dIn In such acts without tire the j r m i knowledge of ot the hip general upon whose staff they ther were werf serving At Hi the time namely Hughes I leave Jove for others to conjecture These facts came to my 0 notice ina in ina Inn a n casual way and anti many others of simi Ilmi similar let lar character have hn been ben reported rente In Indifferent indifferent different parts frt of tire tho archipelago In fact I 1 w WI seas s informed that It was WI r rm corn m mon loon talk at al the Iho places where of r congregated that such transactions transaction had hod been carried are on either with the tire con cun connivance or approval of o certain cerain corn com commanding rm manding It Ii I however bowee moat mat I i gratifying to elate that iia such pave been bel condemned by such com corn na as lt Gem Lawton Wade Walle Sum per L Lee e end Ini BAD nAD lIADI I found that with wih M the Impression that such uch aoh Justifiable rind ull I felt It my I duty clot In n order orel to 10 correct such erroneous nm ant 01 and nut to 10 the ins of such being com corn flitted In lii II the tue future which must mut Im inn Impair pair tine thy good name of ot American an arms lund and bring discredit to our service for tor toral 01 ruth all al time to 10 address to the tire commander the thi lie following hotter lottor of In II Then thou follows an au order addressed to tc loIi Hit commanding general of or the ire Philip limes Ii under date of or F I Feli l h U Ii 1 1901 IDl It II inn which Oln 1 len n Miles Milan MI calls I als attention to the reports porta I of oC atrocities antI and that any aIrs ln orders or circulars of cit 1101 In function which would or en err encourage mirage courage any airy act of ot cruelty be annulled annuled order says jy that tire the excuse that list ill ih u lal conditions justify Ju ty tin hit H ie IJ heroIn heleln condemned are IrI whir wih I 1 m CT T VIOLATION OF OP ol LAW Continuing his irl report to the tire secretary len Gen Miler I directs attention to the tire riots acts of by Gen len Hell 11 damn that list they Ihl were In irr direct violation or of o itt li He says say that the tine law hew was us al oh altO 10 tO 0 violated in handling buying large of ot rice which win sold at nt a a The Flu people who ho were In the camps were ways la 1 Gen Oel 1 Mute M of ot war but 11 w M compelled to buy huy tood rood from rota those thoi who ho tl held them nt at It 1 a large profit lIen Gen Mute MUM characterize this Iris as a unprecedented Jt of ed Pd He lie weak speaks lell of ot the tire the iii Ih transaction which involved 2100 pounds of rice and other supplies at 4 A Oat cost o t of SU He lie le says IS that lust an extraordinary feature fealties of or this transaction tion olt Is II the tho action which vos ns by hy ft a division commander who Resumed Hummed pred command and who turned the tue Il matter mater mc over to tire the civil authorities antI and that lust it innS hat hA been earned carried on under nn an act of the tire Philippine GEN G DAVIS DAYIS A to tp te the lie foregoing portion of ot rt the report has been Ill prepared by Judge Judg Advocate General Davis In a letter leter to tire the secretary of ot war in which he ire says s The Th Incidents which ore are set st forth In iii Inthe II tip the special report hivo M been ben benn n ti c Vit he subject JP of or Un In dir some home 1011 Instances have been conducted by b and tile thu findings and und sentences have inase been duly promulgated In orders order In others tire the Inquiries have hl 0 been hocus entrusted to 10 In inspectors ll or to officers designated for thrust purpose urpo e by tire the the tire commanding Where general In the Philippines administrative has ins been leen called for tor or as ins a result resul of ot such Buch Investigations It I has luas bil been taken talen by br the tire proper military commander If It the tue parties continued within his hil jurIsdIction in II other cases cares the tire matter has bras been bel submitted to tire the department with wih a view low to 10 the tire resort to 10 such punitive remedial orders as al were deemed appropriate and arid them thea representations have resulted In Pr II a I number of ot An Al ts to some sonic of these Inquiries tho tire Investigations ionA are trot not yet et complete and n a oro re reference reference ference terence of the papers paper to tire the Philippine Islands or ocer who wiro are arl now serving In the United States has ban Ili been necessary Whether the tue necessity neelly for tor any airy Iny further administrative action In II addition to that mat already taken will StIll wi be dl oll ollas as n a result of at such ch Investigation cnn can only bo lie determined when Inspection re cc reports reo ports are received recce at the tire department HE lIE 1 EXPLAINS Gen Gem Davis explains that the Inquires Ie les es are ur especially difficult because the incidents complained of ot were svere not nut made mado known at lt the tire time and arid and sol soldiers diers dlf hers of oC tire the volunteer array army a Ml have been named to be discharged ed l He lie II discusses at some cone lon length the tire die dis distribution of ot rice in the tire provinces of und anti Ind avle which In is If a It matter that lint has ras been ben considered on In the depart l nt It I Is 18 explained limit tha In order artier to 10 restore dill civil civi order aird 1111 to 10 provision lon the people In tire the concentration camps camp it was sad wa determined by b Gen PI Ecu Bell el with wil tire the approval of the commanding general that hat purchases purchase of or rice should be b mash made mashy by b y the tire department tire the lot lat latter ter tel to 10 be bl reimbursed by I the military government Upon this point lear Gen el Da bit Davis DI vis bis 11 says MYS MILITARY NECESSITY I The m measures ensures resorted r to were wen die dic dictates totes tates by 1 military necessity they were ere undertaken with wih the tire approval of the local lol military commander and amid were sero calculated to meet mell an sri al emergency of ot Impending famine amine In uch euch uth a way Wit asto as asto to lo relieve Ile actual n distress without pau pauperizing fu tire the tie native nal population and without costing the he burden of oC their sup sUII support port upon the tire Insular treasury when public order had imad been n restored and ami tire the province relegated to ta t civil 11 control AH All 1 the distress Increased after the dle military occupation irad terminated and end the de he demand mand Inand for or relief continued without sub abatement the balance of ot II accruing from frol from the sale Ie leg of oC rice by b the th military government seas al trans Iran transferred erred torr to 10 the Insular treasury and anti ap applied plied Idled Ille by I tire the civil 11 government to 10 the tire relief IC of oC the tire widespread oc at occasioned o cordoned by ir h the th Ih prevalence of o cholera and famine In the Ih provinces of south southern UI ern em anti and intern Julon MILES PLAN Washington April ST Th war de deportment today loay mode made mal public th the report of ot Miles wh male me a tour of ot Inspection of ot the Philippine Jm Un Miles le strongly recommended that t beef on In the hoof hoor IM be II supplied to the In hr the tire Philippines This portion of ot iii hll report wa was Wi to Jon Oen Oln J F We Wei ton tun who In repS reply Ita t In iii 1 my Judgment It I is sot not nt a fuI J Jor or economic plan Ia ana J there here tw be l betin no tin to departure de from frum the h present Pl tn system of ot ruMs frown Gen on Wetton hYa ay his hi oJ otil e ha ba nver er any ah ut beef OB Omi the th contrary un I i com cm OtI at Native beef ler la is out of or the Ibl even et If IC It I vr were er re possible l le to 10 procure It H Hand and there t l wok be f danger In iii II using It I besides beside It being Ing poor por stringy and tough but hut the tire practically destroyed the native cattle a I te The Time experiment of or bringing In rattle cattle ate was lr tt riC 4 d an I a was stated staled by V 01 ol 1 Woodruff anti and was wal an Absolute failure IW r n Gen sums suing up UI the objection olton to 10 the tile plan IID in mr 11 Ut following Tire The supply of ot rattle on the lie hoof bout hOC for forthe forthe or the tire military In II the tue Is Iy not trot practicable bl would Involve invoice enor elO unions mom expense and ami entail welem loss horn hornof of ut animal life ilfe and would ene erve no use fill tul Ui purpose either of 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