Show REPORT COVERING philippine SITUATION washington dec 23 secretary tatt this afternoon made public a mail report just received from governor wright in regard to tho conditions in samar and other islands of tho philippine group it is la part as follows the great bulk of the civilized filipinos live on or not remote from the coast line but there are scattered communities muni ties living in the mountains who are little removed from savagery it frequently happens that some enter man among them will obtain a considerable following and will per petra teall sorts of outrages on peaceful and inoffensive inhabitants this cannot be changed at once it therefore may ba interred that tor several ears to come there will be eruptions from this source and that they will make raids upon the civilized fill panos living sn the lowlands as heretofore the commission so far as its finances permit ts engaged in making roads to open up these remote sections of the interior and to make them accessible A striking instance of the tendencies of these mountaineers is furnished by recent occurrences in the la baad laad of samar two months ago several hundred of these hill men under the leadership of one of their number who styles himself papa pope bulan and who as is usually the case claims to be divinely inspired suddenly descended upon the native towns along the coast line plundered and burned the outlying barrios and began killing men women and children in the constabulary promptly took the field against them and they were soon broken up into small bands and are now being pursued and killed or captured FRENCH CONSIDER SITUATION EXTREMELY GRAVE dec 23 the foreign office considers the situation in morocco giace giave the sultans dismissal of his french aal other military advisors has been followed by a number of other facts showing his intention to interrupt the french policy the officials here say that no definite military or naval steps have yet been taken as these await the sultans response to the ministers demand but a demonstration in force will follow it a suitable explanation and reparation are not promptly given RIOTERS SENTENCED dec 22 sentences were pronounced today upon tho personages ot those participating in the anti jewish riots here in may 1903 seven of them were sentenced to days imprisonment two to days and eleven were acquitted |