The Philippines.
London, May 5. A Renter's message from Manilla says that Colonel Woodruff presented a romirkahle defeuce in justification of ihe treatment of the natives of the Philippines, and complained of the- fictitious hysteria of tho American public. Tho findings of the■ Ooii)in!r.*ion have been forv/i-rded '..0 \Y:v;hington. Americans, wit!; four guns and (JO rifles assaultt.-d "be principal fort of the piratical Moros, or Mohammedan Malays, on the west side of Miudinao. .'• hand to hand struggle: took piaa u high grass, and four lines of »ii:ohos under the fortress wall. Tl - Sultans of Baijan and with a| hundred D;tt!,o.-. ; were killed. { Eighty-four surnvoij surrendered. The Americans sustained' fifty-one casualties. Tho Times states than Senator Lodge is submitting to the Senate numerous cases of tho Filipinos slowly torturiug soldiers to death. President Roosevelt, in addressing cadets at Annapolis, said the wrong-doers in the Philippines would be punished, but the flag would remain. The navy was more responsible for the safety of the Republics than anything else.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 200, 8 May 1902, Page 3
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