Details are given for the activities of light detachments. A total of 54 encounters during the month were "reported, ranging from one to fourgregate number of bandits encoun. tered Is given as 2,750 under about '50 bandit chiefs of whom the names of 30 are given. Six of them were alleged to have been killed In battle, In all 194 brigands were killed, the number credited to a unit of the army ranging from 69 down to two, the minimum curiously coming from the unit which reported the greatest number of encounters—fourteen, The troops lost one non-commissioned officer and fourteen privates killed ud one "non-com'" and twelve privates wounded, Of the latter three subsequently died. One unit ported five prisoners. The rest took hhone—43 pistols with 1,755 rounds of ammunition were taken and 24 rifles with $44 rounds.
The military report a decrease in banditry as compared with previous years and find that greater security has been afforded "to the farmers with a consequent "increase in' crops—25 captives were rescued by the troops. Though the report states thint the month's campaign covered every part of the district, yet the names of the bandit chiefs who are still holding the American priest, Father Joseph Clarence Burns not appear in the list of bands encountered, It is understood that ho military, refrain, from aitaeking that bond for fear that Burns's Life would be test in the effort to rescue him,
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