FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 60, 12 March 1906, Page 2

FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES

EXTERMINATION OF A REBEL TRIBE.

A HAZARDOUS UNDERTAKING

REINFORCEMENTS TO THE PHILIPPINES EXPLAINED.

[press association,] (Received March 11, 4.30 p.m.)

NEW YORK, March 10

American troops and a naval contingent, assisted by the Philippines Constabulary, achieved a victory near Jolo, the capital of Salu, and exterminated the Moro ringleaders and chief followers, who had been harassing the friendly natives for eight months.

Colenel Duncan, of the Sixth Infantry, conducted the two days' operations, in the presence of Generals Wood and Bliss, the action involving the capture of Jajo, 2300 feet high, with a crater at the summit. The ascent was steep, the last four hundred feet being at an angle of sixty degrees, with fifty feet perpendicular. Many ridges were covered with timber, and strongly fortified, the Moros being invisible. Blocks and tackle were used to hoist the artillery 300 feet.

, Six. hundred defenders were killed; the Americans had 52 killed and wounded, including five commissioned officers.

The reinforcements to the Philippines are now. largely explained. Every transport arriving at Manila was filled with supplies, until there was enough to equip a field force of fifty thousand.