INSURGENT GOVERNMENT TO ITS SPIES IN BOGO, 1900

Exhibit 1402.

[Original in Spanish. Copy. P. I. R., Books A. 6]

[Translated from the Visayan.]

Instructions from the Insurrectionary Government to its spies in Bogo, Cebu, where there is an Americnn detachment. [1900?]

It is advisable for the presidentes to pursue the following policy for our good:

1st. In the event that the American forces should arrive at your pueblos, you shall receive them without any resistance, but you will issue instructions to the police forces to be on good terms with them in order to gain the confidence of the soldiers and of their officers, and that they should endeavor to make friends of them in order that in that way they may discover their wishes and plans, reporting same at once to the chiefs of guerrillas and to other revolutionaries, in order that the latter may not be surprised, and in this way peace will be secured and we will be able to help our defenders who are now in the mountains; but the presidents and also the deputies and police shall watch strictly for any revolutionaries who may arrive within the pueblo and see that no one shall say anything, or that they are spies, or that they have friendly relations with our antagonists, and in case that anyone is caught doing this he shall be secretly captured and placed at the disposal of the chiefs of guerrillas. Always advise all of the inhabitants to continue faithful to our cause and that thus we shall be able to show our antagonists that in that way we shall be able to secure the peace of the people.

2nd. The presidentes and the residents of the pueblo should not show their feelings.

A true translation from the original in Visayan.

(Signed) F. R. FABIE,
[U. S.] Official Interpreter.