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Since then the people have not halted or rested ; whole detachments of Spaniards sur- rendered to our troops; and day by day the lowns recovered their liberty,
Filipinas! Beloved daughter of the ardent sun of the tropics, commended by Providence to the care of noble, Spain, be thou not un- grateful acknowledge her, salate her who warmed thee with the breath of her own culture and civilization: Thou hast longed for indepen- dence, and thy emancipation from Spain has come; but preserve in thy heart the remem- brance of the more than three centuries which thon hast lived with her usages, language, and opstoms. It is true that she sought to crush
thy aspiration for independence, so a loving mother opposes the separation forever from the daughter of her bosom, this but proved the excess of affection, the love Spain feels for thee.
Such an acknowledgement is a product of the virtue of wisdom signified by the first colour of our flag, which since that date has
shown to the other nations the desire of our
people to live for themselves; a longing which makes them face all foreign invaders
But thou. Filipinas, flower of the ocean, delicate flower of the East, still weak, scarcely sight months weaned from the breast of thy mother, hast dared to brave a great and power
ful nation such as is the United States, after barely organizing and disciplining thy little army
Ah, beloved brethren! All this is true, and yet we reply that we will be slaves to none, nor will we allow ourselves to be deceived with soft words. Let us strengthen our hearts; we are in our own country. Let us continue to defend our Fatherland till Ludependence is assured. for this is justice. We shall see that at last the great American nation will acknowledge the right which is on our side, and that the doctrine of the great Monroe that America is for the Americans is not forgotten, just as we affirm that Filipinas is for the Filipinos. True it is that some of the States of the American Union have arisen in our favour, especially the Demo oratio party, convinced that both"victors and vanquished lose precious lives. Thus it is that many of the people and many statesmen censure President McKinley, qualifying him as inhunian for having ordered his military representative in Manila to seek means to bring about the ontbreak of hostilities with the Filipinos.
These facts prove that they wish to try us to see if we are able to live up to the second colour of our banner, the red which signifies courage heroism and martyrdom; for with. out heroes, without martyrs, without sacrifices a nation cannot live, therefore we should not resent this struggle with the Americans, in spite of their expressed desire to dominate all the Philippines. Well convinced are they of our rights, well convinced that we fight with justice and right on our side, and that autonomy
is all show and deceit, only serving to save cer- tain accumulated wealth.
We have never concealed our aspirations, we have declared to the world, calling upon the Almighty as our witness, that we aspire but to our independence, and to obtain that we will struggle on without faltering till we obtain it, perhaps from those who are now our enemies, and to-morrow will be our allies, as they were for the overthrow of the power of Spain.
We might well accept this autonomy which America offers us, but what can we do with it, if our ambition is Independence, the goal of the aspirations of all peoples, in obedience to a law of the Supreme Creator ? If we are to accept it only to later overthrow by force of arms the sovereighty of America, as is, I believe the intention of the autonomists, making use of treachery and deceit,
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high the noble brow, smooth, calm, and placid. free from flush of shame "*
Thus there will not be a single Philippine -autonomist; those who are so in the eyes of the people are but time servers, fearful of losing their riches, threatened by the risks of war,
Philippines! Let us be contented! Let us strengthen the bonds of our union! Long live. Independence! Long live the union of the Philippines! Long live the Liberating Army..
SALVAGU BY THE “KINTUCK” Messrs. Holliday Wise & Co., agents of the China Mutnal Steam Navigation Co., Limited, inform us that they received yesterday morning the following information from their Shanghai Agent (Mr. G. Sutherland):
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at sea with shaft broken. The Kintuck reach-
Kintuck steamer. Acablegram is to hand from Colombo advising us of this vessel having re- turned to that port with the German steamer Tannenfels in tow, she having picked her up ed Colombo with this large German vessel on the 14th inst., and left the following day for unfortunately cause the Co.'s steamer to be the Canal after bunkering. The incident will somewhat later on arrival at U. K. than was originally contemplated but your shippers will
well understand the reason.
THE CHARGE AGAINST A POST
OFFICE OFFICIAL..
At the Magistracy on Tuesday, before Mr. H. Gompertz, a clerk in the Post Office named Abdul Raman was charged with stealing a parcel containing two gold chains, valued at $275, on the 19th May.
| all bins, looking only no other object in to our country, the comma which is necessary to ensure ance as a nation. Recent even us that we have no friends. În 1 that our safety alone lies. especially on the sea. In it and patriotic, that, we colonis (hat lies in our power to aid preservation of the command, mother country, even matter from the sordid point of To quote from a recent, leaflet Navy League: "Our Colonics. be considered safe from raids by reas tance, and if their inhabitants are not dependent as we in the United Kingdom are the ses for bread, yet to them also is the command of the sea of deep and vital moment Navy League desires to urge upon all. of Her Majesty at home and abroad that th equally with the United Kingdom in distant parts of the Empire are interes preservation of the command of the sea in the war time "we must have a Navy capa a
and we must have a sufficiency of British born of protecting our interests in the face of m combination that can be brought against us seamen to man our merchant ships that entry our food supplies, otherwise our vast, feet of merchant ships are of no use to usposa
It is also necessary to have a reserve and a nursery of young samen, upon which the Royalı Navy can draw to fill up gaps, and this is thei reason which has induced the Navy League to: draw up a scheme for training British boys as sailors, for the League is convinced that no nation can keep a large, powerful; efficient Navy without the backing of * and efficient mercantile marine, and, for a Mr. A. Barron, Superintendent of the Re reason the hostile attitude of Mr. Ritchie, gistration Department. said defendant entered President of the Board of Trade, and the Post Office as a probationer on May 2nd, Goschen, the First Lord of the Admiral his duties being to sort mails and attend at the the deputation of the Navy Leagne counter and receive parcels. A receipt in de-recently waited upon them to explain, the fendant's handwriting for the parcel in question was produced. It was dated May 19th Wit- ness detailed defendant's duty on receipt of the parcel.
The further hearing was adjourned.
THE BRITISH MERCANTILE
MARINE,
CAPTAIN G. C. ANDERSON ON THE NAVY LEAGUE MANNING SCHEME,
of the League, a printed resume of which hath previously been laid before these gentlemen after a correspondence expending over eightee months, is to be very greatly deplored Th mast
be a reason in the background which do not know of, something probably connected with party tactics, which should not be alloweds to endanger the safety of the Empire. The two gentlemen concerned are of transcendant abilitsei and their conduct in this matter is there.
On Tuesday evening Captain G. C. Anderson fore simply incomprehensible, Lord Charlen delivered a lecture at the Peak Hotel, under Beresford's comment is that the attitude of the auspices of the Hongkong brauch of the authority always has been to ignore grests Navy League, on "The Navy League Manning questions such as these till the Press and Scheme and the light dues. Commander Has public force their attention upon these matter and insist on something being done... T tings presided.
their ranks will have to be depleted in war timis, by taking away their finest specimens dearth of British, seamen and the fact
Royal Navy, constitute in Lord Charles Bern
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said-Many of you doubtless remember the re- train af a music hall song popular some years
ago,
We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we
`do,"
* We've got the ships, we've got the men, and
we've got the money too." Whether the first in that list, the ships, existed in adequate numbers when the song was written, or even now, is open to grave doubt. The first and the last, however, ships and money, without men are useless, and their possession only an incentive to the plunderer. The Navy League, in pursuance of its self- imposed task, has for the past two years been vigorously pressing on the notice of Gov ernment that want of men for our war fleet It is on this vital question that Capt. Anderson has kindly consented to give us an address this evening.
interest of this country; and the prob ford's opinion, a serious danger to the
and other merchandise are very much the food supply and the freight of raw m
opinion that it is, the duty of the Government; by the danger. Lord Charles is distinolly to take up these questions and endeavour to finds a solution of the diffoulty, and that the best way of inducing them to do this is to agitate,, place all the facts before the public, and persist vertising our dangerous position, until and the public insist on some remedy be It is better for the nation to be mso risk of informing foreign Governme serious dangers in time of peace,
about our necessities and weak
to allow them to discover, these
procedure; we do not accept such Captain ANDERSON, who was received with time of war, when it is too late.
to be traitors afterwards, we wish to show our character of frankness and sincerity, and nothing more.
applause, said—I have been asked to lay before you, on behalf of the Navy League, the facts as to their scheme for the more efficient manning of the British Mercantile Marine, and the re- ception of the Navy League deputation by Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Goschen, and to endeavour to
Let us avoid the example of those nations which, having been at one time colonies, socept autonomy to enable them to make their work surer once that everything was enlist prepared. History has given us and example of this in recent events.
Let us persist in our idea, which is the only legitimate, noble aspiration of a people which desires at all cost to preserve the national honour, spotless, pare as crystal, holding
your sympathies with the efforts that are being made to provide a remedy for the existing state of affairs, which have now reached danger an acute stage and constitute a serious; to the continued prosperity of our country, We desire to approach the subject free from #Quotation from one of Jose Rizal's poems.
such a source, and we have medy. This is strong testimony when, once war is declared M out money like water, state of preparedness, the less,
wanted.
The situation is this. We about thirteen million tons
which in 1897. total of 296.265 me which
WECK BA 125 men,
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as a matter of certainty. about thirty-five thousand Británii
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