Some few Filipinos, whose loyalty was above suspicion, were appointed to the lower grades.

This number has since been materially augumented, and some of the original Filipino appointees have risen to the rank of captain.
It was inevitable that at the outset there should be abuses.

The organization was necessarily born at work; there was no time to instruct, to formulate regulations, to wait until a satisfactory state of discipline had been brought about.

There were not barracks for housing the soldiers; there were neither uniforms, nor arms, nor ammunition.

There was no system for rationing the men.