Capitolo 40
treatment of the Filipinos, many that declined shooting secretly
to sign a petition that asks the autonomy. I don't have need to recapitulate the
brutal abuses on that the American soldiers committed innocent
and defenseless people in Manila, women hunting and children simply
because they was tilting out himself/herself/itself of windows; houses that enter to midnight
without the permission of the occupants--forcing open trunks and wardrobe
and stealing money, jewelry and every valuables of theirs they came through;
chairs that break, tables and mirrors that they could not transport
with them, because, however, they is consequences of the war, nevertheless
improper in the case of civilized strengths. But what I would not leave
not motto is the inhuman behavior of that General in its distributions
with the army of Filipino, when, to systematize an essay of the peace with the
Civil Committee of which the Mr. Schurman was President, I sent three times
emissaries that ask a cessation of the hostilities.
Otis Generale refused the fair of the envoys and reasonable application, while answering
what he would not stop the hostilities so long as the Philippine army
declined to placed down their arm.
But because it doesn't make this Army you deserve some consideration for cause
of General Otis and the American strengths? It had them already forgotten
the important service in which the army of Filipino has made to the Americans
the late war with Spain?
It had General forgotten Otis the favours conferred on him by the Filipino
Army, surrendering to his/her Army and he the suburbs and bunkers that
to so great sacrifice to them the Filipinos had occupied?
Because it owes General Otis manufactures a spring such humiliating condition
factor or base of terms of the peace with an Army to whom it sustained shoulder
takes on the shoulders with the American strengths, while freely pouring his/her blood, and of whom
were heroism and the courage celebrated by Admiral Dewey and other Americans?
This unexplained behavior of General Otis, so openly the contrary one