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back envoy to Olongapo and on his/her way disembarked troops in the
provinces of Cagayan and the islands of Batanes for the purpose of
tearing the government of those districts from Spain. This steamboat,
of who name has been changed more recently to _Luzon_, it is currently
to shore in the Great Rio, in Cagayan where her that you owe to you/he/she had run aground
some damage to his/her apparatus.
When our steamboats were leaving the harbours with troops for the
their provinces bathed their insignias in momentary Admiral Dewey
flagship _Olympia_, completing this action in conformity with the rules
of international courtesy, a demonstration of friendship that was
he/she quickly answered invariably to in the usual way.
I CAPITULATE X
The independence's Proclamation
The Dictatorial Government definite that the proclamation of
Independence should take place on June 12, the ceremony in
therewith of connection to be kept in the city of Kawit. With this
you object in sight I sent a Committee to inform the admiral of the
setup and he/she invites him to be present on the occasion of the
formal proclamation of the independence, a ceremony that was solemnly
and it conducted impressively. The admiral sent his/her Secretary to excuse
him to be taken part in the procedures, affirming the sheltered day for
the ceremony was day of mail.
On the end of that month (June) the Spanish gunboat _Leyte_
escaped by the river of Macabebe and arrived Manila Bay, where her
you/he/she was grabbed from General the troops of Torres. You had on part of axle of the
troops and volunteers that were under the command of the Filipino
Colonel Sr. Eugene Blanco, but on to be sighted by an American
gunboat to that she has surrendered voluntarily. Admiral Dewey delivered to me
all the prisoners and arm on axle the vase that according to, however,
him taken possession of; but after the fall of Manila he demanded that
I should give again him the prisoners.
On July 4 the first United States that the military consignment has arrived,
under command of General Anderson, and you/he/she was quartered in Cavite