The Times of Tuesday gives a resume of the report
made by General Miles on the subject of the misconduct of officers and soldiers in the Philippines. The report, says the Times, is a long one, but it gives the following example :—" When General Miles was going from Calamba to Batangas he says he noticed that the country appeared devastated and the people were very much depressed. As he was stopping at Lipa a party of citizens, headed by the presidente, met him and complained of harsh treatment. Fifteen of their people had been tortured by the water cure,' and one old man, a highly respected citizen, while unconscious from the effects of the torture, was dragged into his house, which had been set on fire, and burned to death. The people had been crowded into the towns, six hundred being confined in one building. A physician said he was ready to testify that some of the six hundred died from suffocation." Many other atrocities are alleged to have been committed by direction of American officers, including the whipping of natives to death, the shooting of prisoners, and the torturing and robbing of priests.
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