LUNA TO MAXILOM, JUNE 2, 1899

Exhibit 1395.

[Original in Spanish. Contemporary copy. P.I.R., 1079.1.]

JUNE 2, 1899.

Seņor ARCADIO MAXILOM,
Military Chief of Cebu.

I would thank you if you will please prevent at all costs the ample autonomy offered by the enemy from finding partisans there, and in order to succeed you will impose punishment, as an example, upon anyone who may propagate the apparent advantages of said autonomy, without taking into consideration the civil, military or ecclesiastical state of the one professing autonomistic tendencies.

In case that the President and his Council should submit to the enemy by acceding to his desires of extending his territory, assure them at the proper time and without any delay whatever that you will begin hostilities with the enemy, and never thus consent that any but the flag of the Philippines shall wave in that island.

God preserve you many years.

BAYAMBANG, June 2, 1899.

ANTONIO LUNA,
Secretary of War.