History of Philippine press / Carson Taylor.

History of the Philippine Press

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name of Noticias Sacadas. The leading heading in the first
and only number read, "News Taken From Newspapers Concerning Events that Took Place in the Peninsula (Spain)
during all the Year 1812." A subhead announced, "On
February 19, the city of Rodrigo was taken by assault by
General Wellington" and on the 6th of April under the
heading "Filipinas" the paper contained a story quoting
from a letter from the Curate of Albay describing battles
with the Moros in the South. "Two vessels from Leyte,
one of which carried the Alcalde Mayor, fought 30 Moro
vintas and escaped safely while two from Samar fought
80 Moro vintas and the Moros captured one of the ships. The
The first page of the first American paper published in Manila.
Reproduced from an original copy in the collection of W. W. Brown.
The paper shows the date of issue as September 10, 1898.
town of Moro, Masbate, was ransacked by the Moros and all
the rice carried away, reducing the inhabitants to a state of
starvation. The town of San Jacinto was also plundered and
300 prisoners carried away by the Moros." Various other
Moro raids were described and the last paragraph of the
article stated, "This l etter is published as a warning to all
who trade in these waters that they should take every possible precaution if they d o n ot wish to lose their property,
their liberty and perhaps their lives if not their religion."
On the last p ag e appeared a paragraph, addressed
"Amigo Publico," saying, "This is the last gazette for the
reason that I have no more interesting news to publish. If