Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1901 — Piracy in Viacayans Ends. [ARTICLE]

Piracy in Viacayans Ends.

Manila reports say the rebel trading operations in the Viscayan islands have been effectually broken up. Lieutenant Fred R.. Payne, commanding the United States gunboat Pampanga, pursuant to instructions, has seized and destroyed over 300 vessels of various sizes, mostly native craft, constructed to assist the insurgents. But among those which have come to grief are a number of coasting vessels belonging to leading Manila firms. (