Hearings Before the Committee on the Phillipines of the United States Senate in Relation to Affairs in the Philippine Islands [January 31-June 28, 1902], Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - Philippines |
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accused Adjutant-General alias American armed outlaws arraigned and tried Assistant Adjutant-General authority may direct band of armed barrio bolos Bulacan Cabatuan Camarines Sur Capiz command of Major-General commission which convened confined at hard consorting department commander Department of Northern duly executed excepted words feloniously Filipino foregoing hard labor Headquarters Department HEADQUARTERS DIVISION Ilocos Sur inflicting wounds therewith insurgent insurrection Juan judge-advocate kill and murder laws of war Lieut Luzon Major-General Chaffee Major-General MacArthur Malasiqui malice aforethought Mariano METCALF military commission military government native Northern Luzon officers Pampanga Pangasinan Pedro PHILIPPINES place above specified PLEA.-"Not guilty Pozorrubio presidente Presidio de Manila proper guard province of Pangasinan pueblo pursuant to paragraph reviewing authority second charge second specification Senator MCCUMBER Senator PATTERSON sent under proper sentence Special Orders Specification 1.-"In Specification.-"In Tarlac third charge THOMAS H U. S. Infantry U. S. Volunteers W. P. HALL willfully words not guilty Zambales
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Page 971 - Martial law should be less stringent in places and countries fully occupied and fairly conquered. Much greater severity may be exercised in places or regions where actual hostilities exist or are expected and must be prepared for. Its most complete sway is allowed — even in the commander's own country — when face to face with the enemy, because of the absolute necessities of the case, and of the paramount duty to defend the country against invasion.
Page 976 - Whoever intentionally inflicts additional wounds on an enemy already wholly disabled, or kills such an enemy, or who orders or encourages soldiers to do so, shall suffer death, if duly convicted, whether he belongs to the army of the United States, or is an enemy captured after having committed his misdeed.
Page 978 - War-rebels are persons within an occupied territory who rise in arms against the occupying or conquering army, or against the authorities established by the same. If captured, they may suffer death, whether they rise singly, in small or large bands, and whether called upon to do so by their own, but expelled, government or not. They are not prisoners of war; nor are they, if discovered and secured before their conspiracy has matured to an actual rising, or to armed violence.
Page 973 - Commanding generals may cause the magistrates and civil officers of the hostile country to take the oath of temporary allegiance or an oath of fidelity to their own victorious government or rulers, and they may expel every one who declines to do so.
Page 976 - ... 53. The enemy's chaplains, officers of the medical staff, apothecaries, hospital nurses and servants, if they fall into the hands of the American Army, are not prisoners of war, unless the commander has reasons to retain them. In this latter case, or if, at their own desire, they are allowed to remain with their captured companions, they are treated as prisoners of war, and may be exchanged if the commander sees fit.
Page 974 - The title to such real property remains in abeyance during military occupation, and until the conquest is made complete. 32. A victorious army, by the martial power inherent in the same, may suspend, change, or abolish, as far as the martial power extends, the relations which arise from the services due, according to the existing laws of the invaded country, from one citizen, subject, or native of the same to another. The commander of the army must leave it to the ultimate treaty of peace to settle...
Page 972 - Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of the war...
Page 979 - If it be discovered, and fairly proved, that a flag of truce has been abused for surreptitiously obtaining military knowledge, the bearer of the flag thus abusing his sacred character is deemed a spy.
Page 981 - ... 146. Prisoners taken in the act of breaking an armistice must be treated as prisoners of war, the officer alone being responsible who gives the order for such a violation of an armistice. The highest authority of the belligerent aggrieved may demand redress for the infraction of an armistice. 147. Belligerents sometimes conclude an armistice while their plenipotentiaries are met to discuss the conditions of a treaty of peace ; but plenipotentiaries may meet without a preliminary armistice ; in...
Page 974 - ... rule, the property belonging to churches, to hospitals, or other establishments of an exclusively charitable character, to establishments of education, or foundations for the promotion of knowledge, whether public schools, universities, academies of learning or observatories, museums of the fine arts, or of a scientific character — such property is not to be considered public property in the sense of paragraph 31; but it may be taxed or used when the public service may require it.