MORO FANTAICS
TROUBLE AT PHILIPPINES.
Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright
MANILA, May 21. (Received May 22, at 8.40 a.m.) Twenty-four Moro religious fanatics on the island of Pata were killed by the insular constabulary, when the former attacked the constabulary. It is reported that the Mores were told by a priest that they were immune from bullets. —A. anal N.Z. Cable.
[The original inhabitants of tho Philippines were the Negritos, but owing to intermarriage with the Indonesian anoi Malay peoples they do not number mote than 20,000. The great bulk of the people are therefore of mixed races. There are a fair 1111011)0*1’ of Malays on the islands, and they are divided 1 into two sections— Indies (Roman Satholics) and Moresi (Moharamodans). Tho people of the Philippines have been agitating for self-goverii-rnent, but a Commission which was despatched from the United States to inquire Into the position reported that the people were not yet ready for such a step, and the United States Government endorsed the recommendation of tho commissioners.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18281, 22 May 1923, Page 7
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