[21] Blount, p. 12
[22] Blount, pp. 8–9.
[23] Ibid., p. 9.
[24] The following is one of them:—
“H. Kong, May 16, 1898.
“Señor Don Jose Enrique Basa:
“My Dear Enrique: As an aid to the American policy in the Philippines,—America being the most liberal and humanitarian nation in the world,—I earnestly recommend the widest possible circulation of the proclamation which I send herewith in order that the Americans may be supported in the war against the tyrannical friars and the Spaniards who have connived with them, and that public order, so necessary under the present conditions, be preserved.
“Thy relative, twenty-six years an emigrant.
(Signed) “J. M. Basa.”
—P.I.R., 1204–10.