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Show AMBUSHED BY MOR08. Two Officers and Fifteen Men Are Killed In right. Lieutenant Wlnfleld Harper and thirty-nine men ot F company of the Seventeenth United States Infantry were caught on May 8 in an ambush by several hundred Moros. Two American officers and fifteen men were killed and flvo men were wound-ed. wound-ed. The ambush occurred at Slmpa-torn, Slmpa-torn, on the east shore of Lake Llgu-san. Llgu-san. Island ot Mindanao. The officers killed in the ambush were First Lieutenant Harry A. Woodruff Wood-ruff and Second Lieutenant Joseph H. Hall, both of tho Seventeenth Infantry. |