| Show OFFICIAL REPORT ON AMBUSH gen wade tells of the killing of am in the philippines washington may 12 the war department part ment has received from gen wade in the philippines the following report on the ambush t troops in mindanao dated manila today while on a reconnaissance to locate datto AH who had been sending in threatening messages and trying to stir up trouble a detachment of company F seventeenth infantry consisting of 39 enlisted men was attacked by ros near lake Ligua san mindanao on the ath instant first aleut harry A woodruff second aleut jos hall and fifteen enlisted men were killed and five enlisted men wounded gen wood has ordered troops to proceed and recover the bodies and arm of our and to punish the offenders no further details have been received |