The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-28
GOV. HARRISON
ADMITS CLASH
WITH FILIPINOS
Denies They Tried TO Seize
COrregidor Island on
Christmas Eve.
SEES NO POLITICAL.
SIGNIFICANCE IN 1T

wAsHlNGroN. Tee. 27--COuhrmaton
~ published reports OF disturbances In
the Philippine on Christmas eve, hut "
denial OF alleged conSpiracies to seize
Correridor Island fr IN tine American
forces. was received Mt the var beplr'.
ment tonight from Goycrnor-Generu
Harrison. who has just returned TO Manila
after holiday cruise TO other parts OF
the archipelago.
While confirming in almost every de-
.ail the reports Of the dem ustrations OF
Christmas eve Gov. Harrison's despatch
conveys the impro ssion that "a" does NOT
consider the occurrences IS having any
political slgnihcauces OF ~ suicient con-
sequence to cause any anxiety about con-
dtions In the islands.
Nobody Of any standing Or influence
/. concerned in this movement GOV.
Harrison caoed referring to the clash IN
Manila and the attack on the authorities
o. Navotas ten miles from Manila, both o;
which occurred ihe night OF December "a.
II now seems clear tina, whereas there
n little difference between the unofhcial
and the official reports OF these occur
FENCES so far as facts are concerned the
Interpretations placed on them by Admin
istrstion officials here and In Manila are
quite contrary to that OF unofficial OBJ
servers both here and in the Islands The
Administration is rapidly promulgatnS
the view that these disorders mean MOTH
ing and that they are wholly unrepre-
sentative Of the situation in the islahds.
different View Taken.
In other reliable quarters. though. il IL
pointed out that such occurrences have
been couspicuously absent in the last few
wears. and that their recurrence Is a
trustworthy barometer Of conditions in
the Islands.
In making public GOV. Hsrriscn's des-
patch acting Secretary Of War BrecNn-
ridge and Brig Gen. Mcintyre, chief
of the Bureau OF lnsular MARS, included
recent correspondence between the War
Department and the authorities at Manila
ali with reference TO alarming reports
published in the newspapers during tn"
last three weeks.
No explanation was offered az TO the
cause OF the delay Of the Manila authori'
lies IN answering Secretary Garrison s""-
ond cable OF inquiry sent on Dec, mb'r -,
the reply TO which was received only 'hls
evening. This was a. follows.
ON Christmas eve there was small
and unsuccessful movement IN Manila
connected with the Ricaru canpaign.
Ricartl has Tor several years conducted
from Hongkong revolutionary propaganda.
appealing 10 the most ignorant classes Of
Filipinos and granting through his agents
I'm the islands commissions In his so-callod
army for sums from peseta to 10 pesos
80 cents TO So. During tho last three
months five Of tho Ricartl leaders have
been arrested and sentenced 10 -four and
ak years, including RcartNs right hand
man II has been regarded a. graft
scheme undor revolutionary guise, bu-
from zine to tine lrouses excitement
smoug the uncducatod classes.
christmas eve aboJt seventy-iyo men
extremely ignorant without firearms, met
At the botanical garden in Manra and
we're dispersed 10y the municipal police
with ut disorder, except that tnrrr shots
were fired into the aIr bv police and
twenty men arrested. Eight Of the latter
were held upon the chal-' IT carrying
concealed weapons knives and hJlOs.
Nobody was injured except ono man sIot
hy q policeman later iu the night in
another part az the city when !. at
Tackled policeman with a b5lo.