The Filipino War.
A Reuter message from Manila says that Colonel Woodroff presented a remarkable defence in justification of his treatment of natives. He complained of the factitious hysteria of the American public. The findings of the Commission have been forwarded to Washington. The American forces, with four guns and 470 rifles, assaulted the principal fort of the piratical Moros or Mohammedan Malays, on the west side of the Island of Mindanao. A hand-to-hand straggle took place in the high grass among four lines of ditches under the fortress walls. The Sultans of Baijan and Pandopatan, with a hundred Dottos, were killed. Eighty-four survivors surrendered. The Americans sustained fifty-one Cdl^tl^ltlCSi “ The Times '* states that Senator Lodge is submitting to the Senate numerous cases of Filipinos slowly torturing soldiers to death.
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Manawatu Herald, 8 May 1902, Page 2
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130The Filipino War. Manawatu Herald, 8 May 1902, Page 2
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