The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-12-05
MlLuON-DOLLAR FIRE I'M
MANILA BUSINESS SECTION
MOrOs Gather at Bud DaiO.--TrOOps to Chlna..-
Officer to Court the Of Siam..-
Other Happenings

The two principal items Of interest
in the Manila papers just received from
the Philippines are tho account Of a
million.doilar FIRE in the city, and the
reported outbreak Of Moros in the
south, where reinforcements OF regular
soldiers were sent to quell whatever
disturbances might srise.
Besides these two important items
there are others telling of movements
Of troops to China and the sending Of
ships Of the Asiatic feet to the north
and the departure Of Bishop Charles H.
Brent Of the islands for Holland, where
he win represent the United States in
the international opium conference.
The Big Fire.
The lesson of the big fire which
wiped out from one to two million
dollars worth of property in the bust
ness district of Manila, occupied by
Chinese merchants and foreign whole
sale houses, was the need of and the
adequacy of fire walls, the department
combining its attack on the FIRE to where
such wall was of assistance and stop.
ping the spread of the flames at that
place. On the other side of one wall
was the valuable collection of the
chronological department of the Philip
pine government, and many importing
firms whose loss would have been hard
to estimate had the flames reached
them.
Manila has one of the most efficient
fire departments in the world, the
foundation being laid by Former Chief
Hugh Bonner, of the New York depart
ment, who went to Manila and organ
lied the department a decade ago.
Several disastrous fires have been ex-
perieneed in the retail district occupied
by the Chinese merchants, and the city
government is now considering the
drafting of an ordinance providing that
all future buildings within the fire
limits must have fire walls.
Under present regulations the class
of buildings which can be erected in
each section of the city is prescribed
by law, but this law could not be made
to apply to those already built.
The Moro Break.
According to advices from the south
there were 5000 Moros back of Bud
Dajo, Jolo, prepared to fight, with arms
Struggled in by Chinese traders, who
first landed them in Borneo and then
they were taken into the Jolo archipeE
ago by the Moro vintas, which can out.
sail anything under steam in that part
of the world.
Bud Dajo is the scene of the big
fight in 1906 where General Leonard
Wood led the attack on some Moro
cottas (forts) situated on the top of
mountain and in the cup of an ex-
tinet volcano. At that time some of the
fiercest fighting seen in the islands was
INDUCED in, the Moros being outlaws
from their own people who had pillaged
Christian villages for a generation.
To help the force of 1000 men sta.
toned near Bud Daio, there were sent
on November 6, by the Liscum, Battery
A, Second Field Artillery, and two
pack trains and mountain battery of
the same outfit under command of Cap
tain Alden r. Brewster.
AS TO China.
On November Z orders were issued
at Manila for the Cruiser Saratoga, the
monitor Monterey and a gunboat ia
sail for the Yangtse and work on put
ting them in shape for the cruise was
being rushed. The supply ship Aba
renda which landed the first detachment
of marines at Tientsin and which had
just returned was in port at Manila
but day, taking another detachment
of marines and 200 sailors for service
on the ships under Rear Admiral Muir
dock in Chinese waters. There were
ninety-fve officers and men in the first
detachment sent north, and they LEFT
| Immediately from Tientsin for Picking
as legation guard.
Army happenings.
Several matters of Importance came
up in the army circles of the islands
during the latter part of October anC
the first part of November, Colonel Lei
Febiger, Sixth Infantry. Camp Keith
/ ley, MindanaO, being designated as tn,
representative of the United States t,
attend the coronation ceremonies of thu
new King of Siam, which takes plae,
this week at Bangkok, commeneini
December l and continuing until Deeem
Der 8.
Charged with financial Irregularities
Captain Jacques de L. LATTE, Twelfth
Infantry, and First Lieutenant Georg
+. Price, Fourteenth Cavalry, were I,
be tried by court martial on Noyem
Der 10 at Fort Santiago, Manila. Tn
court was composed Of large numhe