Abstract

An Honest Record

The article provides information on the book "Bullets and Bolos. Fifteen Years in the Philippines," by John R. White. This is an unusual book of adventures in the southern islands of the Philippines in the period of their forcible pacification by the United States from 1899 to 1914. More than that, it is of genuine historical value, for it is a frank, straightforward story of a man who was not only one of the most daring and aggressive of our Philippine Constabulary officers, but one who also refused to yield to race prejudice or to consider himself immeasurably superior to the peoples he was sent to control. The book abounds in bloodshed, night-attacks, sudden murder, and ruthless wiping-out of those whom the American officers declared to be outlaws.