Show CUT TO PIECES BY NATIVES prisoners put to death by the filipinos bodies of dead soldiers mutilated flag of truce used to deceive the americans general otis has decided to keep up an aggressive campaign during rainy season general lawton was right when he said men would be required to put down the insurrection more troops landed manila may ilay 29 1125 a m captain tilly of the signal corps with a detachment tach ment made up of other mem members bers of the corps landed at escalante on the island of negros to pick up and repair the cable the natives had a white flag flying over the cable house when the party landed the latter howe however verp were no sooner on shore than they were fired upon by the natives they at once took to the he water and a number of them were picked up by a boat but captain tilly and an d two native men of the party are axe missing general smith with a detachment of troops has started on board a gun boat to investigate the affair the transports senator and ohio arrived today new york may 29 the new york heralds manila matilla dispatch d describing bing the loss of captain tilly says that when the natives fired upon tho cable repairers captain tilly and one of the men at once threw themselves in into to the water the commander of the recorder running a great risk managed to reach the launch and put off oft from the bank to save it from being captured bythe by the rebels meanwhile a rain tain of bullets was falling all around the fugitives T the he second mate was VMS picked up by the launch just as he was sinking but was alive lie ile said ithac the last he saw of captain tilly the latter was swimming feebly by his elde side the steamer was far out from shore but those on board could see that the other malay seamen were caught by the rebels flogged and then cut to pieces the ship Te returned tUrned to hollo iloilo and within an hour troops were to the scene of the attack new york may 29 A dispatch to the new york herald from manila marilla says general otis contradicting the general impression saya says that the campaign against the filipino insurgents will vill be prosecuted by the american forces with the utmost aggressiveness possible during the rainy reason gen lawton is of the opinion that an early settlement of the present troubles and the close of hostilities the americans div ing rigid protection to tho the working classes in their peaceful occupations while waging incessant war against the tinned forces ot of the enemy from this time forth by mcana means of guerrilla r warfare he ile will show the insurgents by vigorous action on the rivers lakes and mountains that their belief that our troops cannot campaign in the rainy seasons reasons or in the mountains Is untrue later it Is possible that the changing conditions may demand garrisoning by districts so that the valuable part ol 01 the island will be bate safe for the investment of capital and the prosecution tion of industries until americans are completely dominant quick transportation of the theo cavalry and the pack mules la Is desirable as a means of rounding up the insurgents new york slay may 29 A letter received in patterson N J from alexander culross now in the fourth infantry in the philippines tells of tortures inflicted upon captured americans by the filipinos two of our men says culross 11 strayed from the camp yesterday and did not return today we found them in the woods their forehead foreheads ds were slashed in the form of a cri cross ss the skull being split spit t the tongues and hearts of the men bad had been cut out and their legs hacked backed to pieces ea the tile I 1 V boys of the fourth infantry have re boived to give no quarter geread hereafter ter tor for they have reached the conclusion that every one else will soon reach that the only good F Is a dead fill pino they cannot can not fight in the open but steal on us at night and pick off to be better our men they seem geots at night than in the daylight new now york I 1 may klay 29 A special to the new now york herald from washington says information received T h here ere la in private letters from officers serving in the philippines stales states the show no respect io to the american dead in one instance an officer who was on the firing line saya gays he lie was shocked to see three bodies of american so soldiers diers diors who had been killed in an 0 advance avau ce and were brought within the american lines badly mutilated the ears cars of each tach or of the corpses had been removed t the noses cut off and the hearts torn out such mutilation disproves aguinol dos claim that the insurgents are conducting a civilized warfare the american troops give the filipino dead a decent burial and provide every comfort and medical treatment possible for the wounded MEN HEEDED NEEDED captain clay tells of the necessity of more soldiers in manila a chicago may ilay 29 the times her iler ald aid says captain charles D clay of the seventeenth infantry a grand gland son of henry clay and a figlia fighter er at santiago has returned from manila on sick leave he ile was wounded near malolos the of march fifteen days after the landing of the transport the bullet entered his neck and has not been extracted tr acted he ile went last night to his home in lexington ky but expects to go on to new york immediately for treatment concerning the war in the philippines he said volunteers vie with the regulars for gallantry the heroism of both Is superb the first nebraska e and twentieth kansas regiments are equal ito tto any on earth and the war now going on Is as difficult and magnificent a passage of arms as any in our annals A handful of men are waging a war there against parable odds with or men we could sweep the island in thirty days and avert the tremendous mor that la Is now as certain as fate gen lawton had the eye of the soldier so idler when he said men were needed we have not troops enough to occupy what we conquer the place at which I 1 was wounded had been taken three times before and as many times abandoned because we bad had not the force to hold it that Is the case everywhere manila 1 Is a great city full of thousands of men ready to fight at a moments notice it requires 10 men to hold down manila some are in hospitals or useless and that leaves barely men to beat the filipinos in the field and hold what Is gained |