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Show ATTACK fD BY PIRATE NATIVES Australian and Fifteen Filipinos and Japanese Slaughtered Near Jolo Victoria, B, C. March 20. Attacked by eight small boat loads of piratical natives, an Australian named Ferguson Fergu-son and fifteen Filipinos and Japanese were slaughtered off Jolo, Sulu Islands, recently, according to a 6tory of a Philippine Island piracy, told by an arrival on the steamer Monteaglo. One survivor, a Japanese diver, alone, escaped. When he reached Jolo, utterly exhausted ex-hausted after a long trip over laud, he said two luggers belonging to Heaton Ellis of Zamboanga, lagged behind the fleet of pearlers, returning from a cruise On arrival the luggers, nine miles in advance, reported they heard firing. Not until the exhausted diver arrived with the tale of the slaughter was anything known, however, of the piracy. The crew fought until their ammunition am-munition was gone and when the pirates pi-rates boarded all were slain with the exception of the 'diver, who swam ashore, a distance of a mile and a half. He sat on tho beach and watched the looting and sinking of the pearlers and then mado his wav to Jolo. I . i |