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Show In trying to escape the responsibility of the surprise which nearly wiped out company C of the Ninth infantry, the military atrthorities call the attack treacherous murder, because the bolo-men bolo-men were regarded as pacificos. Let us analyze this feature of treachery and compare it with others recognized as justifiable strategy in war. Did not Funston capture Aguinaldo by means which outside of warfare would be set down as treachery? If to catch the enemy napping and take advantage of surprise can be called treachery, then is Admiral Dewey to be blamed for entering en-tering Manila bay while Montljo was eating his breakfast in fancied secur- ! ity and not a pound of steam in the 1 boilers of his battleships. We are indeed in-deed creeping out of a, very small hole in charging up treachery to the account ac-count of the bolomen, so long as Funston lives to boast of the tricky way in which he bagged the great leader of the Filipinos. |