A Statement On The Philippine Situation

Author : Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
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ISBN 13 : 9781331307235
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Philippine Situation written by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philippine Situation: Testimony and Statement of Witnesses, American and Foreign The Witness. Yes: and I received photographs from other insurgent officers. Here is a photograph of another insurgent officer who commanded a column. He went away out of his way to surrender to our station, when he had been ordered to proceed to Jaro, for the reason that he believed the officers and troops in my district were very, very fair and always treated his troops with kindness. All these officers called on us later and thanked us for different kindnesses we had shown their men. "Like Fathers To Children." By Senator Beveridge: Q. On that point. Captain, what was the general and ordinary course of conduct of the American officers and soldiers toward the people themselves who were not prisoners, and the people peaceably at work in their fields and homes, as to kindness and consideration? A. More like farther and children: we always treated them with extreme kindness. Q. And the soldier? A. And the soldiers the same way. Q. What orders did the soldiers have as to their treatment of the people? A. To treat them exactly as they would citizens or natives at home. If a peaceable native was interfered with in his occupation in any way the case was investigated and the soldier who offended was put in the guardhouse: he was punished. Q. Speaking of native prisoners, what was the treatment the prisoners you observed received at the hands of the American officers and men? A. Exactly the same treatment that any prisoners would receive. They received, for instance, the same food that our soldiers received. Q. If they were sick or wounded? A. If they were sick or wounded they were sent to the hospitals and treated in the hospitals. Q. By what physicians? A. The American physicians. Q. And if nursed, by what nurses? A. By American Hospital Corps men. Q. Now, about rations. You have some rations issued to men. I assume that no member of the committee wants any great volume of these ration reports. You may put in such as you want to, and eliminate such as you want to. Rations Issued To Insurgent Prisoners. Q. There are some I have picked out at random while you have been testifying on other matters. I have looked over some of these while you have been testifying on other points. Here is one-ration No. 419. I find in a period of two weeks, from the 16th of December to the 31st of December, that the squad of prisoners provided for during that time was 26: that during this period for these 26 prisoners there were issued rations as follows: 126 rations of bacon, 169 fresh beef, 124 salmon, 419 rice, 419 coffee, 419 sugar, 419 vinegar, 419 soap, 419 salt. This was to the native prisoners, as I understand it? A. Entirely for their use; yes, sir. Q. I have made a very hurried, rough calculation here and I find that that means for each week each man had 34 of fresh beef, each Filipino prisoner; each one had 2 of bacon, 2 of salmon, 8 of rice, 8 of coffee, 8 of sugar, 8 of vinegar, 8 of soap, 8 of salt. I wish you would look at that ration return and see if that general summary of food issued to these prisoners is correct. A. After examinations, Yes. sir: the figures on the back of this return were made by Lieut. W. H. Plummer, commissary officer. Q. There are 26 of those men there, are there not? A. Twenty-six prisoners on that day. Q. I see there you issued them soap. A. Yes, sir. Q. You may explain that-but I suppose that the soap was issued precisely as it would be to the American soldiers? A. Yes: it was. Q. I perceive here the item of coffee and also the item of sugar. I assume that that also is accounted for by the fact that it was merely the issuing of rations to the prisoners precisely as to our soldiers? A. Exactly as to our .