The Manitowoc Pilot

11 KILLED IN
MANILA RIOTS

Four Americans Among the Dead; Shooting Cause of Outbreak.

GOV. HARRISON
AT SCENE

Battle Occurred Within the Walled City Between Enlisted Men of the Filipino Constabulary and the Manila Police.

Manila, Dec. 18.—Four Americans and seven Filipinos were killed here during a riot within the walled city between enlisted men of the Filipino constabulary and the Manila police.

The Americans killed were Capt. of Police W. E. Wichmann, Patrolmen Albert H. Troge and John W. Driscoll and Augustus Jacomen, field clerk of the United States army.

Fifty shots were fired when 40 constabularymen sought to avenge the shooting of a constabularyman by the Filipino police.

The riot was a result of the shooting Tuesday night of a constabularyman, who was reported to have attacked the Filipino policemen with a knife.

Police reserves with riot guns rushed to the walled city, where hundreds of shots were exchanged. The Filipinos killed a patrol wagon driver and six bystanders. Four Filipinos were wounded. There were no casualties among the constabulary forces.

The enlisted personnel of the constabulary forces is composed entirely of Filipinos officered by Americans and Filipinos. The organization numbers 6,000 and is stationed in various provinces of the Philippine Islands for police purposes.

Gov. Gen. Francis Burton Harrison and Brig. Gen. Rafael Crame, Filipino chief of the constabulary, took steps to quell the rioting.

The governor found the constabulary congregated at the walled city and advised them to return to their barracks, and instructed General Crame to hold all the constabulary in the barracks.

Col. Lucien R. Sweet, inspector general of the constabulary, declared this latest trouble between the constabulary and the police resulted from the arrest Sunday of the wife of a constabulary private by the police.

"Her clothing was torn and the circumstances were such as to make any real man's blood boil," he said.