Hongkong, 5th May.
A telegram from Manila states that Colonel Baldwin's Field Battery with two battalions of infantry, forming art of the Mindanao expedition, ave captured the Datto Bayan's main fort, when eighty-four survivors of the garrison surrendered, It was a crushing defeat, as the trenches were piled up with the de-d natives. The American losses included seven vincers killed, and three officers and thirty-seven men wounded. The second fort is now in view of the American forces, and Sultan Taraco has asked for a conference.—Owr own correspondent.
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