Pleasant for the General.
To be defied by a subordinate is not a pleasant experience, but it is still worse when tho infree use of personalities is added to the insubordination. This, however, is what happened to Major-General Otis in the Philippines while inspecting the firing line between the Chinese cemetery and Caloocan. The sergeant of one of the companies, a half-breed Indian and an expert shot, had taken a position 100 yards away from his squad, and was potting the enemy as the opportunity occurred, when a fussy voice ordered! him back to the line. It was Major-G-ene-ral Otis, who, unattended, was out surveying the situation. The bergeant paid no heed, and did not even look up. The General raised his voice : " Get back to the line, man — it's MajorGeneral Otis that orders you." i The sergeant turned. '• Otis, bo blowed," h» !sSrmfl& J£ ffxnj!*
Otis I'd like you to know that the army thinks you are a granny, and that you ought to be at home in. charge of a girl's Eeminary or splitting hairs in a brush factory." At that moment the sergeant sent two balls into a couple of Filipinos, and as he shouted the good news to his squad the General quietly departed.
Pleasant for the General.
Otago Witness, Issue 2375, 7 September 1899, Page 62
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