Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-16
SIX HUNDRED MoRos KILLED
Important Action Near Jolo Between
Americans and Moros.

An important action Detweh ameri'
can forces and hostile Moros has taken
place near .lolo, capital of the Sulu
Islands. Fifteen enlisted men were kill
ed, four commissioned officers and thir-
ty.two enlisted men were wounded, and
naval contingent operating with the
military had thirty.two officers and
men wounded. The Moros lost six
hundred men killed. According to the
report of Major General Wood, com
mander of the division of the Philip
pines, the engagement, which was a
severe one, between troops, naval de-
tatchment and eonstabulary and hostile
Moros, opened during the afternoon Of
March o at Mount Dajo, and ended in
the morning of March s. The action
involved the capture Of Mount Dalo, a
lava cone 2l00 feet high, with a crater
nj its summit and extremely steep. The
last four hundred feet were at an an
gle of sixty degrees, and there were
fifty perpendicular ridges covered with
growth Of timber and strongly forti-
fed and defended by an invisible force
of Moros. Gen. Wood said: "The ac-
ton resulted in the extinction of a
band of outlaws who, recognizing no
chief, had been raiding friendly Moros,
and who. owing TO their defiance OF
the American authorities, had stirred
up dangerous condition of affairs. The
artillery was lifted by block and tackle
three hundred feet TO position on the
lip of the crater. Brigadier General
Bliss and myself were present through
out the action. The officers and men
engaged highly commend the Moro con
stabulary, who did excellent work, their
casualties numbering seventeen out OF
the force of thirty-four engaged. IL
is impossible TO conceive stronger
natural position than that attacked.
Severe criticism, charging the wan
ton slaughter of Moro women and chill
dren in the fight at Mount Dajo, led
Secretary of War Taft 10 send tele-
gram to Gen. Wood asking for full par
tieulars. His reply was in substance
that he assumes full responsibility for
the fight. He said there was no wan
ton destruction of women and children,
though many were killed of necessity
because the Moros used them as shields
in the hand to hand fighting.
Gen. Wood declares that many wo-
men wore male attire and their sex
could not be distinguished. Another
confusing cause was the desperation
with which the women fought, the
priests having worked all the Moros m
to a religious frenzy. Many Moros
feigned death and butehered American
hospital men who were relieving the
wounded.
The secretary's report to the presi-
dent of this answer drew forth letter
in which the president says: This
answer is of course entirely satlsfae-
tory. The officers and enlisted men
under Gen. Wood g command have per
formed a most gallant and soldierly
| feat in a way that eonfers added credit
on the American army. They are en-
titled to the heartiest admiration ana
praise of all those of their fellow citl.
zens who are glad to see the honor OF
their flag upheld by the courage of the
men wearing the American uniform.
| The first serious trouble in the island
of Jolo came in November in 1908, fol-
lowing a treaeherous attack on Amerl-
can artillery force. Gen. Wood with a
punitive expedition, landed on Nov. II,
and within ten days had scattered the
forces of the native leader, Nassau, Kill
ling three hundred natives; the remnant
of this force was hunted down on Feb
natural position than that attacked
wounded, broke up the native force,
which was composed of outlaws Inc
island in general was not involved.
Ludlow capitalists have organized
the Jewell Brook Woolen company,
and $4,000 of the capital stock OF
100000 viii be paid in. A two-story
mill. 65 by 100. win be erected this
spring, and will be running Nov. l.
The new mill will contain % looms and
five sets of cards. Ludlow is expecting
buildiug boom in the spring as re-
sult of the new mandatory, and 1t Is
exnected that 100000 will be expend
ed for new buildings and mill machin
cry.
There is a movement on foot to cal
a special town meeting to ascertain
whether Rockingham, under its vote fol
license. will permit both malt ano
spirituous liquors to be sold or mali
only. Six voters can sign petition any
time within 10 days after the towI
meeting, forcing the seleetmen to cal
a special meeting.
The leader of the Chinese rebels Of
Kuang 81 province and three other
who were implicated in the attack OF
the house of Rev. DR.. Beattie, TN
American missionary, at Fati, in Feb
ruarv, were beheaded March II.
The battleship Ohio, the flagship of Rea
Admiral G. J. Train, commanding the Amer
lean fleet on the Asistic station, will ieav
Manila for Shanghai March Is to Join IN
cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati The battle
shin Yiscoms is now at Olongapo.