FIGHT WITH PIRATES.
OVER ONE HUNDRED KILLED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyriglr
London, May 5.
Americans with four guns and 470 rifles assaulted the principal fort of the piratical Moros, or Mahommedan Malays, on the west side of Mindauo.
A hand-to-hand struggle took place in tho high grass and four lines of ditches under tho fortress walls. The Sultans of Baijan and Pandopaan, with oue hundred Dottos, were killed, and eighty-four survivors surrendered. Tho Americans sustained fifty-one casualties.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 409, 7 May 1902, Page 4
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