South Bend News-Times, Volume 31, Number 168, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 10 June 1914 — Page 2

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GEN. FUNSTON DESCRIBES OPENING NIGHT'S BATTLE IN PHILIPPINES

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life, addressing imprecations impartially to the enemy and tho men of his yction. and at the same time plying his rifle with vigor. Works Arc Stormed. When . wo were within seventy yards the "eharpe" was blown and. ytllinc and excited men dashed forward on the run, and in a few second we were over the works. The enemy did not wait for the bayonet order but broke and ran as we made tho final dash, many of them being srhot down in their flight before they oould reach cover. We found in the trenches 5ome thirty killed, while others were scattered here and there a they had been brought down in flight. One of the imbecile and childish things that the insurgent leaders had done was to organize in the mountain? of northern L.uzon several companies of Igorrote spearmen. These poor naked savages had been drilled in Fome sort of fashion, but were provided only with their spears and shields, and then, apparently under the impression that their very appearance would frighten the the Americans into retreat, had been distributed here and there through the insurgent trenches. A few of them were in the works carried by us. and three or four lay dead. One poor fellow was on his back, his spear lying across his legs and his shield over his breast. A ragged hole showed where one of the heaw bullets had pone through the shield and then through his body. That spear is one of the few relics that I brought from the war. and that did not go up in the San Francisco fire. (Copyright by Charles Scribner's ons.) (To lie Continued.)

"iviiKN wr: WKiir: within .i:vkntv yai:i. thi: chauci:: was iji.owx. and tiic yi-:l,l,ing and KXCITKD MLW DA SI I K D FORWARD. AND IN A FKW SIXTONDS WF WFRE OVER THE WORK.-?."

S.-IIXIl IS DROWNFil). WASHINGTON, June 10. Private Samuel Wesley Ileaton, U. S. M. C, is relieved to have been drowned off Lobos, Mexico. Admiral Badger Tuesday reported to the navy department.

(After Funston bad heeen invalided to his horn" in Kansas from Cuba, the war with Spain broke out and the former Cuban was appointed colnmd of the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers. Tho regiment was s-nt to San Francisco where it remained until the peate with Spain was signed. Rut tho Filipinos were acting ni;ly so Kunfton's training when the Filipinos opened the war on the night of February 4, 1839. was very fit. At this point we resume ;'n. Funston's story. Editor.)

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rv c.K.v. nii;i)i:n!CK rrxsTox. IirigaIier Cit'iieral. United State Army. CHAPTER XII. Major and Mrs. Whitman. Major Metralf and Mrs Funston and myself had started up housekeeping in a very passable, house in ih Rinondo dLstrict of Manila. Our orderlies slept in the samo building and th horses were in a stable in the courtyard. On the night of February 4 we had just retired, and 1 was not yet asleep when Major Metralf pounded vigorously on the door and called out: "Come out here, colonel. The bill has begun. - And sure, enough, .from a little north of ea.nt. floating oyer the housetope of the great city, came the distant rattle of the Mausers. There was no mistaking it. and we realized that a war had begun. As the preliminary rattle swelled into a roat

roar, there were excited voices in the streets, rapid closing of doors and windows, the sound of people running t b T-.- 1 1 "Vi tho vtrunti:

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ouiet as death. We dressed hastily, said hurried goodbys, and in a few moments w e r e galloping through tiie silent streets to the headquarters. The men of tiie various companys were already dressing and falling in. Wo were just

ready to march out outpost line. As e made our way to the northward through the darkened streets we could hear firing directly on our own front, and knew that our own outmost. Captain Adna O. Clark, now a taken prompt steps as soon as they had heard the firing break out on the front of th First Nebraska, miles to their riuht. anil were alert and ready for business with the full strength of the outpost, some seventy men. when the Filipino fire, gradually extending to the westward. Mruek them. In the meantime the murly a thousand of us were coming .Fng at a fast walk. Men Arc All silent.

Iiie men of the reciment were strangely silent as they trudged along listening to the sounds made by these messengers or" death. U was a new world for all but a few of them. Jut as we- reached the tramway c.tr barns there was a tremendous boom half a mile or more to our front, and a couple of seconds later a few rods ahead of us. bounded into the air. passed overhead with A- loud "swish." traversed the length of two companies, and then, with a pound like a young cyclone .demolished two or thre-e nipa houses. It was a bit amusing the way the front half of the reuriment all but prostrated itself as the big round shot passed overhead, though such action was the mtst natural thing in tho world. Only n. bend in the strot-t. which, caused the shot to be a few feet to one side of the common when it struck the second time-, saved the regiment from a terrible disi-ter, as it ploughed its way through the six rear companies of the two battalions In column it could $ aroely have killed or disabled fewer than one hundred men. There wa- nothing to do but to double time and as quickly as possible get to the comparatively open country where we could deploy. The command wa-s giv-n and forward we went, at a goo,!, swinging trot.

Another loom anil a second big shot came tumbling and bounding along, but was a few fe- t to the rii;ht of the stree t, and so did n t give us 90 close a call as tho first one. Ry the time the third one came we had cleared the nipa houses and crossed the bridge, and were depb.ymg in the fields on either side of the road. All of this time the rattle o.' rifle fire was not diminishinc. and now the bullets from the- Mausers were not only passing overhead. but triking all about. The detail on outpost, that had now bee-n fighting for an hour or more, wa-n relieved 1 ervcraJ companies, while tho

others were sheltered as well as possible. Occasional Volleys. For an hour or so the companies that we had deployed on the firing line- did some firing, mostly in the form of ocrasioiial volleys, but as there was not much but the noise on our front as a target, it seemed rather unprofitable business, and the men were ordered to lie down as closely as they could behind the rice dikes and take it easy, gcttin:: what sleep they could. There was scarcely and diminution in the fire of the enemy, it being so inee-ssant that the darkness on our front seemed to emit an almost continuous roar. Hut it was badly directed, as the Filipinos were evidently crouching; down in their trenches and using their Mausers as rapidly as they could, but simply splattering the whole country with bullets. The big cannon in an excellent rrunpit a thousand yards tip the road, lot fly from time to time, and the shot. like overgrown croquet balls, would come tumbling and bounding along.

smashing down the bamboos and oc

casionally wrecking a house behind U: The men soon got over whatever uneasiness they may have felt regarding these projectiles, and began to call out derisively "Low ball" or "high ball." according to the merit of each shot. The longed-for daylight came at last, and with it some lessening in the fire of the enemy. A siiort time after noon came the order to advance as far as the Lico road, which ran parallel with our front, about six hundred yards in advance. At the order the line rose to its feet, and without firing, advanced

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rapidly, the movement not being detected, owing; to the heavy growth of trees and bamboo betwpen the lines. But we had scarcely not into our new position within three or four hundred yards of the? enemy's trenches, and beun to construct

hasty intrenehments when fire was opened on us. The five companies that

ed our firing line were working their Springfiedds for all they were worth, and their front was blanketed with a pall of white smoke that resembled a fierce prairie fire, for we had not yet received smokeless powder for these weapons. It was an impossible situation. The enemy in his excellent trenches was pouring into us a fire that we could not hope to overcome by merely firing back at him. There was no time to ask for instructions from the brigade comander. It was one of the times when subordinates must take tho bits in their teeth. I stepped over to Captain Bishop and, more to hear what he- would say than oeeause I had any doubts on the subject, asked him if the men were equal to it. He replied, "You bet they are!" Then the order was passed down the line to fix bayonets, and the ominous clatter could be heard along the whole front. Then to our feet, and forward, on a fast walk, firing as we went. The advance was much interfered with by fences. but the men, now yelling like fiends and fairly smothering the yellow tops of the earthworks with their fire, pressed forward.

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