Some Interesting figures on
the Subject Compiled
In Adjutant Generel’s Office
Over four Thousand Deaths Have
Been Reported-The Number of Suicides is Astonishingly Urge
Washington, July 24. Maj.
James Parker of the adjutant general's office bas compiled some interesting
statistics regarding the insurrection in the Philippines.
There were 2561 engagements
with the enemy, more or less serious, between Feb. 4, 1889, the date of the
battle of Manila, and April 30, 1902, fixed as the virtual downfall of the
insurrection. The largest proportion of these fights were attacks from ambush
on the American troops, or skirmishes in which only small detachments took
place.
"In almost no case in
these engagements," says Maj. Parker, "did American troops surrender
or have to retreat or have to leave their dead and wounded in the possession of
the enemy, notwithstanding that in many cases the percentage of loss was high.
