Note 42 — Chapter VII · Insurgent Rule in the Visayas and Elsewhere
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Extract from a letter to Apacible of the Hongkong junta dated February 26, 1899:—
“It is also said that the Cantonal Government of Negros has wished to make a treaty with the Americans, some members of that government having come in American transports to confer with General Otis. We are not aware of the conditions of the arrangement, because the Negros people have thus far not wished to put themselves in communication with us; we only know by news more or loss reliable that the capital of that island has been occupied by the American forces without opposition.
“Of Mindanao we know absolutely nothing; we also are ignorant of what has been the lot of our agents in America.”