THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
FIGHT BETWEEN AMERICAN TROOPS AND NATIVES. SIX HUNDRED NATIVES KILLED. FIFTY-TWO SOLDIERS KILLED AND WOUNDED. Reoeived Maroh 11, 4.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Maroh 10. The American troops and a naval contingent, assisted by the Phillipines constabulary, achieved a victory near Jolo, the capital of Salu, and exterminated the Moro ringleaders and ohief followers, who have been harassing the friendly natives for the last eight months. Colonel Duncan, of the Sixth Infantry, conducted two days operations in the presence of Generals Wood and Bliss, the action involving the capture of the Dago, 2,300 feet high/ There is a crater at the summit. The ascent was steep, the last 400' feet being on an angle if 60 degrees, with 50 feet perpendicular. Six hundred defenders were killed, and the Americans had flfty-two killed and wounded, including live commissioned officers. The reinforcements at the Philippines are now largely explained. Every transport arriving was filled with supplies until there was enough to equip a field foroeof fifty thousand men.
CABLE NEWS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7983, 12 March 1906, Page 5
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173THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7983, 12 March 1906, Page 5
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