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Show ELEVEN DIE IN FILIPINO RIOTS Constabulary Enlisted Men and Manila Police Clash in Small Battle MANILA, P. I. Dec. 17- (By the Associated Tress) The entire ron-stabular ron-stabular Harrison hero has been din-armed din-armed and placed under iirrest. and complaints wen- being perpared today for the prosecution of seventy-elRht oonstabulary soldiers who admitted participation in the riot Wednesday resulting re-sulting of deaths of four Americans and seven Filipinos. The body of the American police captain. YV E. "VYU hmann will be cre-mfcted cre-mfcted find the ashes scattered on the ocean Wlchmann leaves a widow and seven children, the eldest eleven years of age. Witness of the riot between the constabulary con-stabulary forces and the Filipino local nollce declare the shooting of Augus tus Jacuman. an army field clerk, was shocking. Jacuman held up botr hands indicating to the constabulary soldiers that he was not. a policeman, kg but he was killed with two bullets M through the head. H The i i't was started by the constat)- B ulary forces seeking to wreak venu m geance upon police for mistreatment H Sunday upon the wife of a constabu- 9 l.uv private, followed Tuesday r.y th 3 shooting of a constabulary private by d policeman A committee of six members to In- Ivestlgate the riot was named by the h i legislature In session here. j , i StANILA, P. I. Hoc 17. FJIeven'l men, tour Americans and seven Pill- M 'plnos, were killed here Wednesday during a riot within the walled city H between enlLsted men of the Filipino, j constabulary and the .Manila police H The American skilled were 'Japtaln gj .of Police w. E. Wlchmann, Pr.t:"i a 'man Albert H Tr;;r und John 1 1 riscoll, and Augustus Jacuman field H lelerk ot tho United States army Kir. a 'shots were fired when torty constabu- II ilarymen sousht to avenge the Bhboting ' n of a constabuku yman by the FIltpinolH police. f BATTLJ SPItEADS. The riot was a result of the shoot- ing Tuesday night of a constabulary-j mh w ho was reported to have at-1 H tacked the Filipino policeman with ' B I knife. The riot occurred at the H l.une:a police station just outside the H .walled city and then proceeded Within a ilhe walled eily. where protid.s, uoii: M firing between the pollco and const. t- ; I ularymen took place. H I'ollce reserves with riot guns', H rushed to the walled city where hun-; B dreds of shots weer exchanged. The 1 1 Filipinos killed a patrol wagon driver IB and six by standers Pour Filipinos B were wounded I !5 There were no casualties among the I constabulary forces Tio- enlisted presonnel of the con- B Btabulary forces is composed entirely B of Filipinos officered by Americans I B and Filipinos The organization num-iB bers fi.000 and Is stationed in various B provinces of the Philippines for police purposes ( Vl si: )l !tl KTING. Rioting ceased when Brigadier General Gen-eral K. Cram, i ppf a r d on s"ene with Chief of I'ollce Hopp. "Every precaution has been taken' to prevent a repetition of the affair ' , said Oerieral Crame 'The cdnstabu-larymen cdnstabu-larymen sunrrendered without a rnur-mur rnur-mur when I appeared wdth I I p " Colonel Lucien H. Sweet. inspectorIB general of the constabulary declared that this latest trouble between the constabulary and the police resulted j from the arrest Sunday ot the wife of ,t constabu la rv prr. t-y the police. Her clothing woe lorn and the clr-cuznstances clr-cuznstances weer such as to make anj real man's blood boll," he said. |