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Show FIGHTING IN MINDANAO. (Jen. Davis's Ultimatum to Datto Unanswered Our Outpost Attacked. Manila, May 3. Oen. Davis, in command com-mand of the American forces In the Island of Mindanao, cables that his ultimatum ul-timatum has nut been answered, that his messenger has not returned, and that the American outpost was fired upon this morning. The troops nd-vanced nd-vanced and shelled Moro fort, hut did not capture It until tho Infantry reached the ditch. This fort was strong and well defended by 800 men. Port Panda Padto was then surrounded sur-rounded and heavily shelled. Heavy firing continued as this dispatch was sent. LIEUT. WAGNER WOUNDED. Oen. Davis also reports that Lieut. Henry S Wagner of tho Tourteenth Infantry In-fantry hns been seriously wounded: that two other oltlcers were slightly wounded and that twenty enlisted men were wounded. This is tho substance of a brief cable message from the Held. Tho War department today received a cablegrnm from Oen. Charfee, dated May rd, which contained the follow - CHAiTEE'S MHSSAOE. "After much effort to tnlk with Datto Ilayan, Ilrlg -Oen. W Davis demanded nn May 1st that the murderers and horses be given up, or that Datto send peace delegation to talk with him by noon of May 2nd. Message was delivered deliv-ered at noon May 1st Messenger had not returned by 11 o'clock on May 2nd. During tho night our troops were fired upon. Did not reply. Moros again fired o-i troops during the morning of May 2nd. Squads went out and drove off appionchlng Moros. At U o'clock troojn attacked and took fort without loss Thirteen hundred yards !eyond snathe fort, strongest work; attacked It. Dispatch from Oen. Davis savs our troops surrounded fort ot 3 o'clock. Klrlng In progress at 3 o'clock. About twenty men wounded also Lieut. Henry Hen-ry B. Wagner, Oen Davls'n aide, nnd Lieut. Jasmin, Twenty-fifth Infantry, former seriously." |