“The minister of Foreign affairs received a telegram yesterday from General Blanco manifesting that more arrests had been made....
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The conjuration had ramifications in various parts of the Archipelago, and in it figured not only masonic societies but also Bible societies....
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The propaganda of filibusterism is encharged to the colporteurs of evangelical books, who wander all over the Archipelago selling protestant publications.”
Note 81. These three native priests were among the prime movers of the rebellion of 1872, a revolt which was planned out in the houses of Joaquin Pardo de Tavera and Jacinto Zamora. The three priests were executed by the garrote together with Francisco Saldua. Gomez left the sum of 200,000 pesos to his natural son, born to him before he entered the priesthood. In his will he strongly counselled his son to be ever faithful to the Spanish authorities. I had intended to give a brief outline of the revolt of ’72 but space will not permit. Taking it as a whole, it differed little from the revolt of ’96 with the exception that it was directly brought about by the propagators of revolutionary ideas then rampant in Spain, and by the emissaries of the revolutionary government then established.
Note 82.—See note [20].
Note 83. The oath taken by the katipuneros was as follows:
K. K. K.
N. M. A. N. B.
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