Show 1 I 1 I U UNDER f COMMAND MMA O Of OF f Gf GENI W I Manila March 19 News of an nn Im Important Important military engagement has hll Just been received from flom capital of or ortho tho the province ot of Mindanao On March 7 detachments of at the tho Sev Seventeenth Be and Infantry troop H n ot of the tho Fourteenth l cavalry and Galleys battery batter In all ni GO 0 strong un under under der tier command of hen den Leonard Wood attacked anti and Ind captured the tho cotta coUn fort tort which was held hehl by the tho Datto All Al who resists the tho law last laW Ills His 18 de do defensive fO IIO works were destroyed and their abandonment forced by the accurate tire lire fre of or the tho batten battery Two thousand Moros mado laro their retreat with a cm loss of 10 The Tho ho Americans sustained eu no 10 loss IOSI cannon connon 46 s native artillery and a 11 largo large quantIty qUItty of ot ammunition swore captured ond Ind the tho fortifications Truitt and Capt MacCoy pur par pursued sued euell and captured tho the Datto Dato gun and his retainers Troops are arc aronow now nw trailing All JI |