Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-04-08 | Page 6 | Gen. Smith Ordered Soldiers to Murder

GEN SMITH ORDERED SOLDIERS TO MURDES manila april 8 major waller at session of alie court martial ly which he is being trica testified in rei of the evidence given by general jacon II 11 smith who commanded tho american in the island of samar general smith he said instructed him to kill and burn and said that the more he killed and burned the better pleased he would be that it was no time to take prisoners and that ho wag to make samar a howling wilderness major waller aaker general smith to define the ape limit for killing and he replied everything over ten the major repeated this order to cap tain porter saying we do not roalia war in that way on old men women and children as captain david D porter Captain Iw ram beem and frank sl of the marine corps testified w the defense requested that a n be served on the adjutant general d in anding of the record the massacre at Ballin giga of ay iy of the ninth infantry ia arieti to refute the statement of brownl smith to the effect that the nt no troops was made according to ali laws of war the request was bitet ati la