FIGHTING IN SOOLOO.
Titk Japan " Gazette " of -May 23rd ejys : Fighting lias been going on between the Spaniards and the natives of Sooloo. The island has never yet been brought under complete domination ; the town of Jolo has been, in fact, the only pait in which Spanish authority was fully recognised. Recently an expedition wag sent to the island, after the completion of the operations in Mindanao. A telegram despatched by the Governor-General of the Philli pines to the Spanish Government states that on the 16th of April Colonel Arslas, Governor of Sooloo, with 000 men, obtained a complete victory over the Moro rebels afe Maibung, taking two formidable stockades, capturing their guns, and inflicting great loss in dead and wounded. Maibung was reduced to ashes. The Chinee quarter was respected and the occupants were, of their own free will, conducted into the forb at Jolo as neutrals. Sultan Harun concurred in the operations. The enemy's loss is set down at 258 dead and wounded. The Spaniards also suffered considerable loss.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 7
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171FIGHTING IN SOOLOO. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 7
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