Show condition of 1 in samar the testimony given by general hughes before the senate comm atee on the PI clipp nes dealt entirely wilh the mil tary conduct ot affairs in the island of aaman wl ere the massacre of balang ga occurred last fall he said the natives of that island 1 ad been invited to locate near the stations of the united states troops and that when he left the island last september about 20 out of a total population of bad thus located they had been advised that it was necessary for them to pursue th s course in order to secure protection in the cases where the natives of a village were found harDon ng insurrect os the village was generally burned general hughea sa d that as a rule the policy given section is to vard severer treat meat as the insurrection grows in po nt of t me he sa d however that the pol cy to be pursued was generally ned by the offices s in command general said he had found the Visca generally far less civi 2 zed than he I 1 ad expected lie had supposed that they bouli follow the rules of civil zed warfare but had been disappio anted and tl is was reason for the change of policy to vard them |