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The Week.

Source :
Nation; 8/3/1899, Vol. 69 Issue 1779, p81-83, 3p
Publication Year :
1899

Abstract

The article presents information on various socio-political news from the world. American press in Manila was censored, news to and from the United States was suppressed or cut down to a meaningless nothing but the Filipinos, by means of cablegrams from Hong-Kong in Chinese, got all the information. All the American military plans were known in advance. Whether the Washington authorities were misled as regards the condition of affairs in Luzon or whether they deliberately closed their eyes to the truth. The Hong-Kong newspaper attributes the successive failures in the Philippines to the ignorance of the Americans with respect to the Filipinos. At Hague, warning was given to United States for adhering to their traditional policy of having nothing to do with European quarrels and allowing Europe to have nothing to do with American quarrels.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00278378
Volume :
69
Issue :
1779
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Nation
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
13927902