It has been distributed to the Consuls and you are ordered to reprint it there translated into English and send some copies to the United States, even though only a thousand, if you deem it advisable.

Send copies also to Europe, Senor Agoncillo taking charge of the publication.

If the Agent you may have selected for the United States should still be there, it would be advisable for him to take a copy of the pamphlet with him for its publication.
"This is an order of the Government which I take pleasure in transmitting to you for due execution." [49] But there was a change of heart about giving the pamphlet to the consuls, for under date of September 30 Buencamino wrote:-- "We have not distributed them here in order that Otis may not counteract the effects that we desire to produce with this publication, through his usual machinations.

Nor do we believe it advisable to make this pamphlet public in those colonies before your arrival in the United States." [50] To this letter he added in cipher the following postscript to Pablo Ocampo, in charge of Aguinaldo's correspondence in Manila:-- "At last moment--Nota bene: "Don't deliver any copy of the 'Resena Veridica' to the Consuls, even though it was so directed in the beginning of the letter.

All except one, which is for you, will be sent to Hong-kong, Don Pedro de la Vina being bearer of the same, as also of the other documents.