AN EXPEDITION TO ILOILO. (Received December 29, 9.5 a.m.) Washington; 28th December.
Lieut. Moller, commanding a battalion of lowa volunteers belonging lo the Sixth , Regiment of Artillery, has left for Iloilo, in the Philippines, the town having been abandoned by Spaniards owing to the rebels surrounding it. . • . [Iloilo is situated on the inland of Panay, about the middle of the group, and when the San Francisco mail left England it was reported to be in a critical condition. Tbe insurgents had then surrounded the Spanish garrison and the population of the towu, and a general massaore -was feared. The Americans bad at that time no control there, having so far given their attention principally to the larger northern island of j Luzon, on which Manila is situated, and, indeed, chiefly to the district of Manila itself.]
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1898, Page 5
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136AN EXPEDITION TO ILOILO. (Received December 29, 9.5 a.m.) Washington; 28th December. Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1898, Page 5
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