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Show MOnOB ARE ROUTED, Sli Fnrli on the Hliore or lh Lake Hhellrd and Denlrojred hy Ainerlcani, The Marcin Moros In Mindanao have offered but Blight resistance to tho column uodcr Captain Pershing of the Fifteenth cavalry. Aftor a Bcrlcs of skirmishes on Monday Mon-day and Tuesday of this week tho Moros retreated into six forts on the shores of the lake. When a courier left Maeln Wednesday for Camp Vicars Captain Pelshing wus preparing to assault the last Moro stronghold. The American column reached the former camp at Maeln Sunday night. On Monday the Moros opened Are on tbcm with a brass cannon and rlilce from a scries of new forts which had been erected since Captuin Pershing's ilrst visit to tlie place. The battery under Cuptalu William S. McNair scaled a ridgo commanding the position posi-tion of the Moros and shelled them out. The ruglneers under Captain J. J. Morrow hud constructed a trail over the swamp flanking the Moros' position. posi-tion. The men of Captuin Pershlug't column crossed the swamp by tho trail and captured and destroyed three al tho Moro forts. Tho Moros stood but a short while nud run as soon ns the artillery opened on thoiu. Captain Pershing hud been ordered to destroy the forts unless the Moros make peaco. Twenty Moros wero killed. There wero no casualties among the Americans. |