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Show mm kill LEYTE CONSTABULARY Lieutenant Worswick and Thirteen Thir-teen Soldiers Shot Down, MANILA, July 23. A dotachmont of constahulnry, Lieut. Williams commanding, command-ing, encountered a baud ot GOO Pulaianos near Buraon. on tho Island of Leyto. yesterday yes-terday (Sunday), morning. Lieut. Wors-' ,.iwo,ve I)rlvfttos ad Civilian Scout McBrldc were killed. Tho constabulary wore driven back. The Pulajanes secured fourteon rlllos and two revolvers. The bodies of Worswick, McDrlde aud ton privates wore recovered. Reinforcements of constabulary have been sent from the nearest station. Major Nevlll, commanding the military, has orderod a company of twenty-four regular Infantry to bo hurried to the scene. Mnjor Nevlll reports that there are from 400 to 1000 Pulnjanes In tho field. Lieutenant Worswick was a graduate of the University of Kansas and was appointed ap-pointed to tho constabulary last February. Feb-ruary. Ho graduated from the constabulary constabu-lary school Juno 50th and this was his first battle. Buraen Is situated In an Isolated Iso-lated portion of Leyta. |