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Show INTO AX AMMJSOADB. UASC TREACHERY OP FILIPINOS AT UALBM, LUZON I leule nanl llllinnra an,l I oorlrrn Men of tho lirtiinlaturl tV lilt, on an I'rr.n.l nf Mtrrr-Thrlr lal Not Known Washington, April ?0 Much excitement excite-ment has been caused In nary circlet by n cablegram received nt the war department de-partment from Admiral Dewey, stating that Lieutenant J C (lllmore and fourteen four-teen men, of the orktown, had I" ell captured by the Insurgents at llalrin, Luron on the cast toast of Luron I' I , on April 13 and that the fate of the raptured men was not known The , orktown visited llalem for the purpose of rescuing and brlnglngaway the Spanish force, consisting of eighty soldiers, three ofllrers and two priests, which were surrounded by too Insur gents. Lieutenant flllmnro and hi party ran Into an ambuscade and were raptured by the Hllplnos who afterward after-ward refused to communicate 1th the American forces regarding the fate nf the prisoners. The rapture of the , orktown men Is discussed with much feeling In naval circles. Although the dispatch gave no Indication that Lieutenant (lllinoro and his men had lott their lives, )ct great anxiety was aroused by the in) trry surrounding their fate while In tho hands of nn uncivilized rncui) This Is tha first rsptura of any Amrrl cans military or tinval mi that It is unknown how tha Insurgents will trrnt our men If clvlllicd methods wirn pursued nticxchsngcenuliljlic quickly e (Tec ted ns General Otis has it large number nf llllplno pr.sniicr. but the Hllplnos have bien arerse thu far to exchanging Spanish prisoners, and this raises a question as to what they woul 1 do with the i orktown a men |