The Archive · 1896

A Native Corporal

with two soldiers carrying provisions was met a few days back in the Anloague Street by two of the new Spanish soldiers recently arrived who turned round on the natives calling them traitors and other to the Archbishop's party, who are for wholesale slaughter and destruction regardless of the consequences, and is the man who in the very first encounter shot down right and left every native visible, even hauling them out of their homes and butchering them in cold blood, and who was also implicated in the tragedy of the "Black Hole" of Manila.

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