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Show Natives of Samar Running Short of Food. News received from the island of Samar is encouraging, although up to the present tim there has been no wholesale surrender of natives. The Filipinos captured there by our troops show evidence of suffering and hunger. The coasts of the island are closely patrolled by gunboats and the use of the searchlight makes it almost impossible impos-sible for the natives to land supplies on the island for the insurgents. The patrolling gunboats have captured bvei $20,000 in cash and $100,000 worth of hemp, upon which a tax had been paid to the insurgents has been confiscated. |