Lawton Accounts of Campaigns in Philippines and Prisoner Cruelties
General Lawton reports 30 days of campaigning with 600 troops at Canadaba. He describes executions of captured Americans, treatment of Chinese refugees, destruction of rice and sugar, and establishment of civil governments in San Miguel, Balinag, and San Isidro. He notes heavy insurgent losses, 1004 prisoners captured, and 20 American wounded.
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Route changes erase Wake Island from Manila cable plan
The state department notes Japan's occupation of Marcus Island alters proposed cable routes. Nero surveys Bradford route bypassing Wake Island, considering links Honolulu to Midway then Midway to Marcus, with Guam 40 miles from Marcus. Cost estimated at 4 million, Canada contributing 1 million. Summers promoted brigadier general. Case major by brevet. Newport arrives Manila with marines. Brutus heads to Guam. Abarena to Valparaiso. possible Samoa actions.
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Japanese Immigrants Surge in Hawaii Reported
Washington reports a rapid rise in Japanese immigration to Hawaii with multiple official inquiries under way. An inspector in Honolulu states 12,000 Japanese have arrived since annexation and predicts Asiatics may outnumber all other groups in Hawaii by year’s end.
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Hawaii
United States
Honolulu
Five Marines Drown On Raft Hit By Sinking at Pasig
Manila May 24 Five men of the Fourteenth regiment drowned when a raft carrying soldiers sank at Pasig ferry. Twenty insurgents were killed and 40 wounded in a engagement with Major Bell as a reconnoitering party from two Fourth cavalry companies moved near Santa The Oregon and Minnesota regiments are returning to Manila. The Spanish newspaper Oceani was suppressed for publishing a semi.
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Oceani
Refused to Treat in Kansas Coal Strike Talks
In Pittsburg Kansas on May 24 the District Mine Workers union leadership failed to meet with coal operators from four large district firms. The strike continues as hundreds of Negro miners reportedly head to the region to work the mines amid fears of trouble.
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District Mine Workers’ Union
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