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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
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rges ofmutilation brought against the Spaniards, but we may take it for grantedthat a prominent officer like Admiral Sampson would not make such chargeswithout knowing them to be true.^ Besides, they are in keeping with the 1 Admiral Sampson, having been asked by the government for specific information regarding the reportedmutilation of our dead, replied, after this paragraph was in tvpe, saying that careful investigation led to thebelief that the supposed mutilations were caused by the peculiar tearing of wounds inflicted by Mauser rifle-bullets at close range, and that he desired to withdraw his previous charge of intentional mutilation. Thecautious wording of the Admirals reply leaves the matter in doubt, and shows that he was not fully convincedof error in his first report. At any rate, mutilation of dead enemies is a common custom among Spanish sol-diers, as it is with other savage faces And every one believes that they would mutilate our dead if not restrainedby wholesome fear.
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406 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. known character of the Spanish people. They have practiced such brutali-ties in all their wars, the present struggles in Cuba and the Philippines beingno exception to the rule. It is natural, therefore, to presume that they willmutilate the American dead, when they have the opportunity, just as they havedone those of all the peoples with whom they have contended. An Americandiplomat, who was in Spain during the Carlist civil war, gives some horribleinstances of this vile practice, in which the mutilations were inflicted uponrelatives and members of the same families. His statements almost challengebelief, but they are supported by facts that cannot be successfully dis-puted. He says: I was in Spain at the time of the last Carlist war, and every other for-eigner who followed the operations, either with the Carlists or with the gov-ernment forces, will bear me out in my assertion that the belligerents oneither side mutilated the dead bodies of their foes i

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