“LA BELLE SAUVAGE”

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1927, Page 7

“LA BELLE SAUVAGE”

BOADICEA OF THE JUNGLE. Dispatches from the Philippines recently reported that the Moro Princess Tarhat a. had been captured, when she returned to Jolo exhausted. She had fled from the constabulary who defeated the Moros, killing 35. After the battle the princess had taken to the jungle, leading a few survivors.

Moros tire a warlike race of Moslems, probably of Malay or Arab extraction, occupying certain remote parts of the Philippine Archipelago. Princess Tarhata is a mascot of the Moros. Some years ago she left home in native garb and went to Illinois University. When she came back her hair was bobbed and her cheeks and Ijps were carmine. She married the Moro leader, Tahil, who lately started a, rebellion against the taxes and other “injustices” of which he has complained since the Atftericaits came into the islands. Tahil luul a garrison of 200 Moro:; in his fort, and Princess Tahil was also there. The constabulary at first feared to attack the fort, lest the sacred princtess should be unwittingly killed, which would have rousted fresh tribes to rebellion. So the Sultan of Sulu—a local monarch —persuaded Tahil to let Tarhata. leave the fort before it was attacked by gun lire and tear-gas. When Tahil was defeated she lied io tiie jungle as stated.