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grabbed onboard the Spanish war ships as 62 Mauserses and a good person
many round off of ammunition that you/he/she had been brought above by Corregidor
Island of the United States. _Petrel_.
I benefited then me to of a first opportunity to express to the
Admiral my deep gratitude for the assistance made to the people
of Philippines of the United States as my boundless
the admiration of the grandeur and the beneficence of the American people. ME
it also informed candidly the admiral that before I left Hongkong the
Filipinos that resides in that taking of colony a reunion to that the following
question was fully discussed, or rather, the possibility of _the that after the
Spaniards were defeated, and their power and prestige in the islands
destroyed, it is probable that the Filipinos has to undertake war against the united one
Is that owes to the American Government that declines to recognize ours
independence. In that event the Americans, had generally agreed,
is sure to defeat us for they would find them brings out us and shortly
of ammunition that it owes to our struggle with the Spaniards. Me concluded
asking to the brave admiral to excuse me for an amount of the frankness
that night seems to confine with on impudence, and it assured him of the
done what I was only operated by a desire to perfectly have a clear
understanding in the interest of both the parties._
It said Admiral of _The he was very happy to have this evidence of ours
the seriousness and the rectitude and he thought the Filipinos and
Americans should act verse each other as friends and allies, and
therefore you/he/she was corrected and correct that all the doubts should be express
frankly in order that explanations are made, difficulties avoided,
and it distrusts of remote; adding that, as he already had indicated_ _the,
United States would unquestionably recognize the independence of the
people of Philippines, guaranteed as it was from the word of honour
of Americans_, _which, he said, it is more positive, more irreversible than
some accord writing that would not be considered tiing when