[104] “It is impossible to order General Noriel to fall back because if we order it they will ask the same thing from General Pío and we shall get nothing ourselves. And the worst is that after we have evacuated Manila and its environs they will follow us up to our new positions to take them too without our being able to obtain from them any formal statement of the concession signed in duo form. Tho conflict is coming sooner or later and we shall gain nothing by asking as favours of them what are really our rights. We shall maintain them as long as we are able, confiding in Providence and in Justice. I confirm my last telegram. Tell General Anderson that we shall hold a meeting of the council of Government in order to decide. Please return here soon with your companions. I inclose the map which I hope you will return.”—P.I.R., 427. 1.
[105] Senate Document No. 208, p. 22.
[106] Ibid., p. 23.
[107] Ibid., p. 26.
[108] Senate Document No. 208, p. 24.
[109] Pío del Pilar.
[110] Report of the War Department, 1899, Vol. I, part IV, pp. 5–10.
[111] See Buencamino’s letter to Jáudines, p. 108.
[112] Taylor 36 AJ. et seq.