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around it.We put up our shelter tents and slept on top oi bones in the grave yard. Many victims of Spanish crimes and murders lie buried in the grave yard. When a Filipino died here formerly his body was put in a vault and hit* people had to pay monthly $5.00 in Spanish silver, and if this rent was not paid his body was taken out and thrown on a bone pile together wi h many other bodies.Our major that night, the £mt wespent in the Philippines, gave orders for us to be ready at any time and told us not to remove our belts or shoes. At II 30 o’clock the insurgents tried to drive us out of our trenches but they found us very warm b»ys. We had skirmishes quite every day aod finally we got an order from General Otis to march to the Filipinos’ trenches. ,We started at 3.30 o’clock the next morning. We started in double quick time, and every man took his fighiing distance, two paoes from one another. The bullets threw up the dirt all around us. I don’t mind the Remington shot as much as a Mauser. The Filipinos stayed until we were 85 yards Irom their trenches, and then you ought to have seen them ruo !All ycu could see were old hats and; dead Filipinos. I never will forget ihe sight. Some had their heads shot off entirely. We kept on for 19 miles be~ yond Manila and then we went scoutragf** for soinetbina to eat. We found sum*
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New Brunswick Daily Times
New Brunswick, New Jersey, US
Tue, Aug 29, 1899
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