In a few minutes the articles were in my hands, and passing out, there were the American priests in the ante-room, the next callers to enter the General's apartment.

Their business was to urge him to permit the Catholic priests held as prisoners by the insurgents--more than 100, perhaps nearly 200 in number--to go home.
When the news came that General Merritt had been ordered to Paris, and would pass through the Red sea en route, taking the China to Hongkong to catch a peninsular and oriental steamer, I telegraphed the fact to General Aguinaldo over our military wires and his special wire, and his commissioner, duly advised, became, with General Merritt's aid, at Hongkong a passenger on the China.
He is well known to the world as Senor Filipe Agoncillo, who visited Washington City, saw the President and proceeded to Paris..