RACE TRAITORS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 75, 24 April 1909, Page 3

RACE TRAITORS.

wiht 10 .mux who fkiiit for »AVA<iK« AHAIXiST WHITICS.

It will Ir' strange indeed if n is not discovered, before tin l ]iresent t■. uul i, / campaign in India is owr. that nl lea-;t one while nnin is lighting for the tfakka

Kliels against t'le llrilHi troops. In almo-t all the wars which the lorces of civilisation wage against those of bar barism, some white men—traitors to their kind—are to be found lighting oil the .siik> 0/ the savages (say.j a writer in a Home paper).

1 fought in tlie ranks of an American ■regiment--the Bth United .Slates Infantry—in the Fnilippines during the Aguinalilo insurrection, and a man iu ni.v own company deserted to the enemy. The reason was that he hud fallen in love with a Filipino girl, the daughter of one of Aguinaldo's chief lieutenants, llis infatuation was stronger than )>is oatli of fealty. THE "KII.L AXD lil'liV I'A.MI'AKiX.

He was given command of a party of "bolomon" by the rebel leader. These "bolouien"—so named from the long, cruel knife they carried—were savages of the must 'bloodthirsty type, whose idea of warfare was midnight murder The renegade became worse than the worst of them, and won an evil name for himself even among the Filipinos, Some of the fearful atrocities he perpetrated on American prisoners who fell into liis hands could not even be hinted at iu print. At last lie was captured liy a detachment during Onenil Jake Smith'* notorious "kill and hum" campaign iit Samar. He was shot Hue same day, J narrowly escaped being one of the liriuyparty. I w;n~: assigned for the purpos-j; hut the brother of a soldier lie hail murdered 'begged for my place, and .was given it.

One of the most remarkable traitors to civilisation in recent years was a French officer named Captain Voulet. After a distinguished career in French West Africa, he "went Fantee." Revolting against the French authorities in 181)!!, lie led a large bodjj of native troops under his command into the "bus'li," and made war on his own account against several- petty native kings with great success. Inspired by the wonderful career of Rabah, the "black Napoleon," then just closed, he aimed at founding a great native state and ruling over it. He even induced another ollicer, Lieutenant Chanoine, to join him. French troops were sent against them; hut tliey fought them, killing an officer and some men. Eventually, after committing some terrible atrocities, Voulet and Chairoine were set upon and massacred by their own soldiers.

•TOAX OF ARC UP TO DATE. Sin tin Pasha and Father Ohrwalder, in their 'books describing their captivity among the Mahdists, both speak of a crazy Fenian 'who managed to make his way to Oindnrman and offer his sword to the Khalifa. He wan regarded with a mixture of suspicion and contempt, and at last perished miserably in the pestilential dervish town. The Dutch, in their century-long -war in 'Ai'hin, the Portuguese in East Africa, the liraziliiins in their vast hinterland, and every other civilised people that ivar against savages, have found white men lighting in the ranks of their foes; and, of course, have given them shrift. Hut t'iie most remarkable of all these renegade- to civilisation was the famous "Santa Teresa," a white woman who for many years led the Yaqui Indians in their successful guerilla campaigns against the pick of the Mexican troops. She was, in her way, a modern J*)an of Are, for the cause of the Yaquis was a good one, They were struggling against oppression; they fought to lireserve their land from the invader. Sho •was worshipped as a goddess by t'iie Indians; and she made them abstain from the atrocities usually associated with savage warfare, and show mercy i to prisoners. For this she was pardoned j by the .Mexican Oovernnient .when it j eventually captured her, and was graciously allowed her full liberty, after a I short imprisonment.