Millard County Chronicle | 1911-02-09 | Page 4 | Smith Breaks Long Silence.

8MITH BREAKS LONG SILENCE. General Charged With Cruelties In Philippines Defends Act ons. Portsmouth, Ohio. General Jacob II. Smith of Samar Island fame, broke his years of silence Friday n'ght and defended the course of action which preceded his retirement from the army following his memorable cum-palgn cum-palgn of 1902. General Smith denied vigorously that he had ordered or countenanced the killing of women and children by the soldiers. He said he had been severe with the savage tribes of the Philippines, because they had mutl lated wounded soldiers and set fire to their bodies. He bitterly assailed Theodore Roosevelt, who, he said, praised General Gen-eral Wood for conducting a campa'gn along the same lines as the speaker had followed, although the then president presi-dent had arrayed himself against Smith.