Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — GREENE GIVES TESTIMONY. [ARTICLE]

GREENE GIVES TESTIMONY.

General Tells Some Things to *h« War Investigating Committee. Gen. F. V. Greene, who was in charge of one of the divisions of United States troops at the battle of Manila, told the war investigating commission that he sailed from San Francisco to Manila on the steamer China, an excellent vessel, which was inspected by a board of officers before it teas chartered. He found the ship in good condition, bnt the men necessarily were crowded. Four months' provisions and a large quantity of quartermaster's and medical supplies were carried. With a few exceptions, the loading -was carefully done, though there was some misplacement, owing to haste. Gen. Greene said there was no complaint during the voyage of a scarcity of suppKes. but during the first two days out there was some dissatisfaction with the cooking. This was soon improved, and no criticism was heard afterwards. The details of the ocean trip and of the battle of Manila were related in a manner calling for the closest attention from the commissioners, but covering the same ground as his report to’ the War Deimrtment recently made public. He spoke of the insurgents who lay between his forces and the Spanish lines. It was. the witness said, impossible to give an estimate of their number, but he thought it was about 10,000. They were well supplied with Mauser and Remington rifles, many of which they had captured from the Spaniards and others they had purchased abroad.