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Show MORO FANATICS DERMIS EIGHT HUNDRED OF FOLLOWERS SURRENDER AFTER BATTLE WITH CONSTABULARY Prophet Proclaimed Himself Bulletproof; Bullet-proof; Stirred Natives Pnto Attempt to Drive Out Americans Manila. Fifty-three fanatical Mor os, including Akbara, the self-styled bullet-proof prophet, have been killed in a fight with the constabulary on the Island of Pata, near Jolo (Sulu). A total of 606 Moros surrendered to the constabulary after the battle. It is estimated there are 200 more of the fanatics still at large, including three petty chieftains. The authorities belive the fight has broken the back of the fanatics' movement, but further constabulary detachments are being sent to the district to gather in all the adherents of the Prophet Akbara. Akbara, the Moro fanatic leader, who fell in the Pata battle, was regarded re-garded as a man of more than ordinary or-dinary intelligence. He formerly had been a trader in Sulu and Visayan. When business slumped he returned to his native island of Tata. Recently he foisted himself on the people of the district, who are principally prin-cipally Mohammedians, as a prophet with divine instructions to drive the Americans and other Christians into the sea and establish in Sulu a government govern-ment that would be "responsible only to heaven." |