Although it seems that the American soldiers tried very hard to stop the Filipinos from committing atrocities, the American soldiers were too few to control the thousands of Filipino natives, and as a result, almost all the Spanish civilians, from the elderly to the children, were slaughtered by the barbarians. In the end, Sergeant George pulled out his gun and knocked over a few of the barbarians, almost causing a clash between the barbarians and a dozen or so American soldiers. Only a limited number of civilians were finally saved. And while the American soldiers were trying to protect the few Spanish civilians who survived, the barbarians did something that the American soldiers couldn't stand anymore. They began to use the machetes in their hands, provided to them by the Americans, to cut off the heads of the Spaniards who had already been killed, whether soldiers or civilians, men and women and even children.

Although in the not-so-distant past, Americans often did things like scalping Indians, but now they find it unbearable to see Filipinos cut off the heads of Spaniards. Yes, the Americans have also done things to cut off the heads of barbarians, for example, the head of the barbarians of the Indian tribe who had helped the immigrants on the Mayflower was cut off by the civilized people on the Mayflower and hung on the flagpole in the harbor to dry. As for the Spaniards, the slaughter of the natives was even more incomparable. But...... But that's all civilized people slaughtering barbarians, civilized people cutting off the heads of barbarians, isn't that a normal thing? Civilized people have swords, savages have heads, shouldn't this obligation be fulfilled? But on the other hand, the barbarians cut off the heads of civilized people with their knives, even if these barbarians are barbarians on our side, and civilized people are civilized people on their side. In the eyes of civilized people, it is still unbearable.

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“…… But to be honest, the emergence of such a story is a very good thing for civilized Americans. It worked very well. Greystone, do you know what this good work is? Looking at the reports of atrocities committed by "our Filipino allies," Scrooge told Greystone.

"Father, may this be beneficial for us to persuade the Spaniards to surrender?" Gladstone replied.

"That's a point." Scrooge replied, "And not very important." In Scrooge's view, it was indeed a good thing for the United States and the American army to let the Spaniards surrender early, but not necessarily for the consortium.

"Greystone, you think, our infiltration of the Philippines is not as good as our infiltration of Cuba. So even if Cuba becomes independent, it will be our agents who will rule Cuba at that time. But this is not the case in the Philippines. And the Filipinos are not civilized enough, even if they are asked to be our agents, they will not be able to do a good job. So, for quite some time, we're all going to need the U.S. government to rule the Philippines directly. Of course, this will definitely turn us against those Filipinos. We need a noble reason to rule the Philippines directly. This news, is one. We can preach that Filipinos are not civilized enough to govern themselves, so they need our guidance.

In addition, in the future, if the consortium develops in the Philippines, it is clear that there will be some conflicts with the Filipinos. Paint them up front as savage, so that when we need to take a tough stance against those Filipinos, they won't be questioned or criticized. Alright, Greystone, you should know how to do it. ”

With that, Scrooge waved his hand and motioned for Greystone to go about his work.

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The next day, the New York Times ran a front-page story called "Barbarians on Our Side." The massacre of Spaniards, especially Spanish civilians, by those barbaric Filipinos is depicted in detail. and their barbaric culture as headhunters. It is also accompanied by extremely terrifying and disgusting pictures, such as a Filipino barbarian who shows his white teeth and holds a big little loli with eyes that looks less than ten years old and is still open in horror, and still smirks at the camera. It is said that many people vomited directly when they saw this photo.

After portraying the atrocities of the Philippine barbarians, the New York Times asked this question:

"During the centuries of Spanish rule in the Philippines, the Spanish initiated numerous massacres against these indigenous peoples. So the hatred between the indigenous Filipinos and the Spaniards is very deep. Now that Spanish rule was collapsing, the natives felt that the time had come for revenge. Such retaliation is a very normal thing for the natives. But can we really let them do it and say, 'It's not my fault that I shed this man's blood?' Looking into the eyes of the dead little girl in the photo, which of us can say such words? If we were to let these natives who hated the Spaniards go into those cities now, we all have a brain that can imagine what it would be! Once we let these people into Bacolod and even Manila like this, I'm sure that even if we used the whole Pacific Ocean as a golden basin, we would never wash the blood off our hands.

I know that we are not rich in troops in the Far East, and under normal circumstances, arming the Filipinos and allowing them to seize the cities themselves is probably the best tactical option. But for humanitarian reasons, I hope that our military will do everything possible to keep those cartooned hateful Filipinos out of the city. Now we must not hand over these cities to them, nor should we even allow them to become independent, as in Cuba, because it would be irresponsible to do so. Only when they are civilized and civilized under our education can we consider allowing them to gradually achieve independence...... It is also our sacred mission in America to teach them and to civilize them to the fullest extent......"

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Such news was naturally known to the Spaniards trapped in Philippine cities. Because in the Far East, the Spaniards could also rent radio stations in the colonies of nearby countries to communicate with the Spaniards who were trapped in the Philippines. The New York Times published such content, and the Spaniards naturally knew about it, and then such information was transmitted to the Spaniards, who were still fighting the American army in the Philippines. So, as Gladstone had predicted, the Spaniards approached the American troops, and they proposed. If the U.S. military promised that they would never let the barbarians enter the city, and that they could guarantee the safety of the lives and property of the Spaniards, they were willing to surrender to the Americans. R1058