Show AMBUSHED BY MOROS two officers and fifteen men are killed in F lieutenant winfield harper and thirty nine men of F company of the seventeenth united states infantry were caught on may 8 in an ambush by several hundred moros tac american officers and fifteen men were killed and five men were wound ed the ambush occurred at simpa tern on the east shore of lake figu san island of mindanao the officers killed in the ambush were first lieutenant harry A wood ruff and second lieutenant joseph H hall both of the seventeenth in fantry |