Show terrorizing terrible act of brutality reported to pro tent acknowledgement of ameri can authority the records in the cases of thirty four pippino natives charged with various offenses offen see against military bisci pline in the philippines including murder treason and other acts of vio lence have been received at the war department these records maue plain the methods pursued by the in sur gents to terrorize the native innabi tants of the islands and show cases of atrocities committed upon the latter where they declined to comply with the demands and the exactions of the so called filipino government in one case nine fully armed seized in the night a family of alve persons and killed them with bolos the motive for the murder was the punishment of the family for re fusing to pay taxes in support of the insurgent government the guilty natives were sentenced to hard labor for thirty years |