The Manila newspapers <n Christmas Day announced the ar rest of fifty Filipinos by the members of the City Beoret Service. The men re charged with com. plicity in a revolutionary plot, They were for the most part armed with bolos, hatchets and knives Two large Katipunan flags were also captured and number of commissions signed by Artemio Ricarte, of Hongkong, making their holders officers in the army of the revolution, were recovered.
There was no make-believe in the plana for the uprising, the "Cablenows" says. The first word cama from Superintendent James, of the Department of Sanitation and Transportation, who telephoned the Luneta police station that large number of men, acting suspiciously and carrying arms, were in possession of the Botanical Gardens. The chief of secret vrvice at once sent the patrol wagon with a detachment of plain-clothes men, armed with riot guns, to the scene. They started to round up the suspicious characters and were promptly fired on by some of them, three shote being fired—but without effect. The men scattered in all directions, but, owing to the prompt work of the police, three of them were arrested and with them was taken a Katipunan fish, some ammunition and one dagger so sharp that it could easily te used as @ razor.
One of the men arrested confossed to the police that an outbreak had been arranged for Christmas morning.
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