30 MAY

1901 - The local chief of Balangiga, Samar informs Gen. Vicente Lukban that the Principales of his town have agreed that they will maintain a policy of contrived friendship with the imperialist enemy [American] troops during the early stage of the Philippine-American War; the seething desire of the Balangiga residents to fight for the preservation of Philippine Independence the Filipinos earlier gained against the Spanish colonizers will ultimately be quelled by the fierce brutality of United States Gen. Jake Smith's "kill and burn" policy that will soon turn Samar into a "howling wilderness."