Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-09
Advices From Hong Kong to Filipino
Junta in Paris.
PROTESTS AGAINST LANDING TROOPS
Situation at lIoiIo is Regarded as
Very Serious.
AGUINALDO's CUSTOMS LAWS

LONDON. January "a representative
of the Associated Press learns that the
Filipinos junta of Paris has received a
telegram from the Filipino agent at Hong
Kong. dated Saturday, and saying:
Fight with Americans unavoidable. We
are not the aGgressors.''
y telegram from an English house at
Manila today says the situation is very
strained and that there is much anxiety
there. The dispatch also contained news
from IloilO, the substance of which was
that the American troops had not yet land
ed
The members of the Filipino junta dis
credit statement published in the Globe
here this afternoon that the United States
government has ordered Agoncillo, the rep
resentative Of Aguinaldo, to leave Wash
ington. They say they would surely have
heard the news if it had been true.
Mail advices from the sO-called Filipino
government. received here today say that
Aguinaldo has decided that all foreign
trade entering ports under Filipino con-
troll will he admitted on the payment of a
duty of five per cent ad valorem and that
all export trade is liable TO duty of one
per cent ad valorem.
The Filipino committees in Paris, Madrid
anu A1'44I'4i NFltSt pAieu on 10
President Mckinley. The Paris dispatch
read
We protest against the Decentralization
of American troops at 1loilo."
The London telegram said:
Treaty of peace still unratified. Amer
lean claim OF sovereignty premature. Pray
reconsld2~ resolution regarding Iloilo. Fill
ipinos wish for the friendship OF America
and abhor militarism and deceit
y very general impression prevails in Of
hcidi circles tn II Felipe AgonciIo, the
representative of AguinaIdo now in Wash
lnSto1. reflects the real views of the leader
or the insurgents and the FiIIpinos general
~, tAe government of the United States
VIII b" compelled to adopt stern measures
10 bring them 10 their senses. Through his
interpreter. SiNto Lopez, Agoncillo has
stated that the FilipinOS Will never consent
10 becoming a colonial dependency of the
United States. and iutimatcd very strongly
that anything in the nature of annexation
would he fOrCibly resisted by the insur-
gents He also declares that the Pres
ldentS proclamation promulgated in the
Philippines by Gen. Otis is vague and un-
satisfactory, inasInUch that il does not tell
the ultimate intentions of the United States
toward the Philippines or state what kind
OF d government is to be established there.
Agoncillo seemed to lay great stress upon
the fact that the insurgents had pledged
their lives not to lay down their arms until
Aguinalio tells them to do so. and of mis-
confidence that they will keep that pledge.
RvsardIng the dispatches from Consuls
Wildman and Pratt reciting that Aguinaldo
ana ASOnclIlU both pledged their assistance
TO the United States and We're in favor of
annexation, Agoncillo declares such state
ments TO be untrue asserting that on the
other hand, Whdman and Pratt promised
that absolute independence would be given
the Philippines soon as the islands were
wrested from Spain. and that there was
no talk Of annexation.
4 o. rF..vr,
deliberations of the peace commission but
VINO does not desire to be personally
quoted, stated in conversation this morn
ing that II was pretty we'll known in Paris
Immediately after Agoncillo's arrival there
that he was in close communion with men
who Were known 10 be secret representa-
tlFes of the German government, and that
the protest he filed with the peace COM
mission was inspired by these persons