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companions could never return to Manila.
Had The procedure of this special representative been as soon as of Spain?
I CAPITULATE III
Negotiations
But my companions and I would not be kept from very in our anguish,
grieving himself/herself/itself on the bad faith of the Spaniards, for of month of
March of the year assigned (1898) some people came to me and in the
name of the Commander of the United States. _Petrel_ asked a lecture
in the acquiescence with the wishes of Admiral Dewey.
I had some interviews with the aforementioned Commander, _i.e._,
during the evening of March 16 and 6 April during that the
Commander exhorted me to return in Philippines to renew the hostilities
against the Spaniards with the object to earn our independence,
and he assured me some assistance of the United States in the event
of war between the United States and Spain.
I asked then to the Commander of the _Petrel_ that that the United States
you/he/she could grant to the Filipinos. In it replies him it said: The "_The Stati
it is a great and rich nation and the necessities any colonies_s."
In perspective of this replica I suggested the opportunity to the Commander
to affirm in writing what would have agreed to from the United States,
and answers that he would refer the matter to Admiral Dewey.
In the mean of my negotiations with the Commander of the _Petrel_ me
you/he/she was interrupted by letters by Isabelo Artacho and his/her legal attorneys, on
on April 5, asking $200,000 of the money received by the Spaniard
authority, and affirming that him (Artacho) you/he/she should receive this
you add as due salary to him while it is behaving as Secretary of the inside,
him that you/he/she has been, a member of the Government of Filipino was declared
established in Biak-na-bato. These letters contained the threat
that non-observance with the application of Artacho would result in
him that it brings me in front of the Courts of Law in Hongkong. You/he/she can do the
you care him more in clear way if I mention to this point that Isabelo Artacho has arrived
to Biak-na-bato and it did him known to and mixed with the officers