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Show AMERICAN SOLDIERS I KILLED BY BOLOMEN Ten Are SIhIii uuil Six Wounded by Insurgents In-surgents on lue Island of Samar. The following brief-cal jegram from General Chaffee, reportir ( the fight of the JNinth infantry in Sai.iar Wednesday, Wednes-day, was received at the war department depart-ment Friday afternoon: ' "Manila, Oct. 18. Corb.n, Adjutant-General, Adjutant-General, Washington: f! rty-six men, company E, Ninth regltaent, Ninth United States infantry under First Lieutenant George W. Wylace, infield, Lower Canadara, Samar,t ere attacked by 900 bolomen, OctoberjJ. Our loss, ten killed, six wounded; .lames not received. re-ceived. . Eighty-one of C enemy left dead on the field. Eney:,J beaten off." Another dispatch sayiie remainder of the company arrived the scene in time to prevent further laughter and routed the enemy, kill g over a hundred hun-dred of them. It is bel Ived that the enemy only retired for : linforcements. As soon as the news w;s received at Catbalogan two gunboats were dispatched, dis-patched, General Smith going in person per-son to the scene. 1 The war department officials ware somewhat dismayed at. the press report of the new setback on the island of Samar. They had no confirmation from official sources of the report, but this was true of the last affair of the kind, which happened at Balangiga. The Ninth infantry, which suffered there, was the same organization that engaged in the latest fight at Banga-jon. |