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Show FILIPINO UPRISING " NIFPEDINTHE BUD TIMELY WARNING GIVEN OFFI- CERS RESULTS IN ARREST OF THE RINGLEADEDS. Forty Men Arrested and One Man Shot by a Policeman, No One of Influence Being Concerned in Outbreak. j. , I-P 1H Washington. Details of natlvo uprisings up-risings in tho Philippines, beginning Christmas ovc, wore contained in a cablegram recolved from Governor Genoral Harrison Sunday at tho war department and mado public by Assistant As-sistant Socrotary Brockonridge. Tho report minimized tho extent of tho trouble, but stated that small bodies of Filipinos had assembled in Manila and Navotas ChrlBtmas ovo, and at Laguna do Bay Friday night and attempted to mako trouble. As u roBult, forty men woro arreBted and ono man was shot by a policeman. Governor General Harrison reported that tho disorders had been suppressed; sup-pressed; that overy tiling was quiet and efforts wero bolng mado to arrest ar-rest tho leaders, tho chief of whom, he said, was believed to bo a man under sontenco of lmprlsonmont for homicide homi-cide He added that nobody of any in-fluenco in-fluenco or standing was concerned In tho movement; Uiat it was "Btnall and unsuccessful," and was connected with the campaign of Rlcarto, who has conduoted a revolutionary propaganda propagan-da from Hong Kong for several years, "appealing to tho most ignorant classes of Filipinos." Administration officials havo ro-fused ro-fused to beliovo that there was any seriousness in tho Philippine troubles, but have watched tho situation closely, close-ly, becauBo of Its possible bearing on the Jones bill granting moro independence inde-pendence to tho natives, which has boon passed by tho houso and le now ponding In tho senate Tho nationalist newspapers accuso tho other political purtlos of fomenting tho revolt, and Uioy also .hint that somo Americans woro concerned in it in nn offort to quash the Jonus bill, whloh contains provisions for a greater great-er moasuro of self-govornmcnt for tho islands. Tho authorities are In full control of tho situation and tho incident 1b considered by them to bo closed. |