home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ncrlnk!ciss!law7!military
- From: Joseph Askew <jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
- Subject: Re: US and Philippines (Was: Opinion on Japan being "forced" to attack)
- Message-ID: <By0tK5.8w7@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Followup-To: sci.military
- Summary: Some more on attrocities
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Statistics, Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide
- References: <BxM6EA.5xq@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:26:29 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
- Lines: 52
-
-
- From Joseph Askew <jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
-
-
- In article <BxM6EA.5xq@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman) writes:
-
- >From Michael Goldman <miklg@acuson.com>
-
-
- > The US Army succeeded in suppressing the Philipine insurrection
- > by herding large numbers of Filipinos into concentration camps
- > to deny the insurgents aid from the people. This contributed
- > to the famine and other problems which killed 200,000 Filipinos
- > in addition to the 20,000 insurgents, and 4,200 Americans who
- > died in fighting. (Roughly 10 times more Americans died in the
- > Philippines than had died in the Spanish-American War.)
-
- > General Smith (a 62 year-old veteran of the US Civil War and
- > the Indian Wars) was court-martialed for excessive brutality in
- > ordering the burning and destruction of every village and the
- > killing of every male above the age of 10 in the island of
- > Samar (his limited jurisdiction). He was treated leniently by
- > Roosevelt and merely forced to retire, rather than imprisoned.
- > The trial left a bitter attitude towards Imperialism in the US
- > people.
-
-
- Just as a further comment on the suppression of the Philippino independence
- fighters, I found a book called "Our Philippine Problem - A Study of American
- Colonial Policy" by Henry Parker Willis, produced with help from the (right
- wing, antiCommunist) Hoover Institute, published by Arno Press and the New
- York Times. In it the author singles out three Generals for special mention
- Generals J F Smith, Bell (in Batangas, Laguna and Tayabas), Hughes (in Bohol
- and Cebu). It does not say what exactly these people did but it does refer
- to General Smiths "Kill and Burn" order although it does not spell out what
- that means. More to the point it has a quote from General Bell (presumably
- the same man) claiming that by 1902 ONE SIXTH of the population of Luzon
- had died as the direct or indirect result of the War - that is at least
- 600,000 people. As a comparison, this is about the same proportion as the
- greatly inflated Soviet claims for WW2.
-
-
-
- Joseph Askew
-
-
- --
- Joseph Askew, Gauche and Proud At dawn with staff in hand I climbed the crags,
- jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu At dusk I made my camp amoung the mountains.
- Disclaimer? Sue, see if I care Only a few peaks rise as high as this house,
- One China One Korea One Eire32 Facing the crags, it overlooks winding streams.
-
-