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Show TO PROTECT NATIVES. Americans Will Take the Islands of Samar and Leyte. Manila, Jan. 17. Colonel Kobbe, with the Forty-eighth infantry, sailed on board the transport Hancock today, with gunboats escorting. The objective objec-tive of the force is probably the important im-portant islands of Samar and Leyte, which the insurgents hold. The American Amer-ican blockade and the levies of the Ta-gal Ta-gal arms' have caused great suffering among the people and hundreds of persons per-sons are in an almost starving condition. condi-tion. The Tagal general Mauricio recently landed at Negros from the island of Panay and requested a conference with Colonel Byrne. He proposed that the insurgents be let alone and permitted to wear side arms and uniforms in the towns until the war in Luzon was ended, when they would surrender. Colonel Byrne refused to agree to this, however, and said they would be considered as bandits and shot if they were found armed. Colonel Byrne surprised sur-prised the insurgent camp the same night and scattered the Filipinos, killing kill-ing thirty of them, including a general. |
