s a believer in the exact truth
and has shown exemplary care in stating it. The Filipino faction
of warriors are habitually false, and wherever they have an agent,
are circulating falsehoods manufactured to order. The Junta of the
Aguinaldo pretenders, issued at Hongkong a statement as follows:

"Information which has leaked through the Pinkertons, sent by President
McKinley to investigate the shipment of arms to the Filipinos,
shows that the first shipments to Aguinaldo were made by order of
the American government, through Consul Wildman, hence the shipment
per the Wing Foi. The American government subsequently telegraphed
to cease this, coincident with the change of policy to annexation.

"Mr. Wildman and Rear Admiral Dewey promised to pay, but have not yet
paid, for a subsequent expedition by the Abbey, authorized by Admiral
Dewey, who afterward seized the steamer, and it is still held. Papers
respecting this are now in the possession of the Secretary of the Navy.

"The protestations of Admiral Dewey and other Americans that they
made no promises are ridiculous. In view of these facts let the
American people judge how the nation's word of honor was pledged to
the Filipinos and confided in by them, and violated by the recent
treachery of General Otis."

There may be an occasional member of Congress who cannot help believing
this, but he does not allow his ignorance to be moderated by any
ingredient of information.

On the same day the above publication appeared there was given at
Hongkong to the American Consul, Wildman, news of the "discovery of
20,000 rifles and 2,000,000 cartridges stored on lighters at Nankin by
Filipinos and ready for shipment to the islands. The American Minister
promptly induced the Chinese authorities to impound the munitions,
thus inflicting a hard blow to Aguinaldo.

"The extraordinary thing is that the Japanese government sold the
arms to the regular agent of the Filipinos at Yokohama, although,
for the sake of appearances, a form of auction was used. The Japanese
officials, it develops, offered 100,000 rifles, with machinery for
loading and ammunition, to the Filipinos in September.

"Traitorous Americans here are aiding the insurgents to smuggle
arms. Agoncillo's dispatches are leading the Filipinos to believe
President McKinley intends to treat with them."

The official correspondence of the American Consuls at Singapore,
Manila and Hongkong with the State Department, proves th