Show NO OPPORTUNITY TO HEAL HE L BREACH REACH Gen Hughes Repeats s Previous Statements Statements State State- ments monte About Beginning of Filipino W r W WASHINGTON WAHINGTON ASHI March 8 8 Senator Patter Patterson continued his questioning of Gen Hughes In the Senate Committee on the Philippines today taking up the thebe be beginning of hostilities in February 1899 1599 The witness repeated his previous Statement that the first shot had been fired Ored by an American merican There was some come sparring between the two iiI as on on previous occasions the Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Insisting upon a direct answer and the witness upon replying In his own way May Mr Patterson sought to bring out the fact tact that the at attack a k vas was made before before before be be- fore the Filipinos were ready and Gen Hughes I admitted that the Filipino leaders were absent In a conference at Malolos He said that hostilities were so actIve the n next day that there was no rio opportunity to attempt to heal the breach |