The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
THE F|uP|NOS ARE
NOT Up IN ARMS
Governor Harrison Says Up
rising Was Small.
FORTY MEN ARRESTED.
Efforts Being Made to Catch the
Leader, Said to be Filipino
Under Sentence.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Details OF
the native uprising in the Philip.
pines last week were given in a
cablegram received by the war de-
partment tonight from Governor
General Harrison. The report min
imized the incident. Filipinos as
sembled in Manila and Navostas
Christmas eve, it stated, and at
Daguna de Bay last night and at
tempted to make trouble. Forty
men were arrested and one shot by
a policeman.
Governor Harrison reported that
the disorders had been suppressed
and that everything was quiet. and
efforts were being made to arrest
the leaders, the chief of whom. he
said, was believed to be a man un-
der sentence of Imprisonment for
homicide. He added that nobody
of any influence or standing was con-
cerned and described the movemert
as small and unsuccessful. Ii
was connected, he said. with the
campaign of Ricarte, who has con
Quoted a revolutionary propaganda
from Hong Kong for several years.
appealing to the most ignorant
classes of Filipinos."
A WORD OF WARNING.
With
patch the department tonight gave
out message sent him December
Il, telling of newspaper reports of
threatened Filipino revolt.
To this on December % Governor
Harrison replied:
mo foundation whatever known
here for reports
The report received from Cover
nor Harrison today was I'm response
to later inquiry as to the truth
OF newspaper stories that military
preparations were being made to
deal with revolutionary plot. That
riot guns had been distributed to
American civilians on Carabao and
Fraile Islands and in Manila. and
that two native scout officers h,t
been arrested at Corregidor Island
Inc governor generals dispatch
dated this morning, follows:
referring to kilograms from
your office of oath instant, army
headquarters state there is absolute
~ no truth in the report about Cor
regidor. Carabao and Fraile alieped
occurrences.
UNSUCCESSFUL MOVEMENT
ON Christmas eve there was \
small and unsuccessful movement
in Manila connected with .ha
Rfcarte campaign. Ricarte has TO-.
several years conducted from Hone.
Kong revolutionary propaganda ap
peaiing to the most ignorant classes
OF Filipinos and selling through his
agents In the islands commissions
in mis- so-called army for sums from
peseta to ten pesos. Go cents tc,
S5.) During the last three months
ftve OF the Ricarte leaders have beer
arrested and sentenced to from
four to six years, including Ricarte's
right-hand man. 1t has been re-
garded az grating scheme under
revolutionary guise, but from
time to time arouses excitement
among uncducated classes.
Christmas eve about seventy-fiye
men. extremely ignorant. without
IRE arms, met at the Botanical Gar
len In Manila and were dispersed
by the municipal police without dis
order, except that three shots were
hred into the air by police, and
twenty men arrested Eight of the
latter were held upon the charge of
carrying concealed weapons
knives and bolos. Nobody was in
jured except one man. who was sbo;
by a policeman later in the night.
Ia another part or the city, when
he attacked the policeman with a
bolo.
SIMILAR MOVEMENTS.
Movements similar In character
occurred at Novotas, ten miles from
Monila. where about forty men as
sembled and endeavored unsuccess-
fully TO loot the municipal safe, TAX.
ing the provisional governor pris-
cner who afterwards escaped unin-
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