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Show I PILIPINO LEADLnMinlVC8. ITat tialnalitoa thief Aililter ITIien M.r llessn-ltabll.lieil JuliU la HMln, Ilafael Del Pan Foiitola, a refugee from tbo Philippine Itpnilt, and first prttldontofthe Mndrlfl Junta, nrrlvcd In Now York from tar ad a Wednesday. "I came hero to bo free," bo ex jdalncd "lUvss Impossible for me to bo other than a slavu to America when t lived with my wife and five obll lren la Mnnlln, so I have coma where I won't bate lo bo sul si rvlcnL Americans Ameri-cans nro not tuliKrvlent to Americans, and while I dun t approve of the American Amer-ican methodt employed lu tha Philip, pluci. Id rather be n fna American than an cnslurcil 1 lllplno " Hviiur 1'iiutela was i lawyer nnd editor edi-tor lu Munllii. When the war legan be aa Aguliinldo'a chief ndtl.er. Drltin out of Ihe Philippines by tbo Ann rl.c .in sol llcrs,hu lied with bit wife and llvu small children to Madrid 'ihtru ho established the first Itllplno Junta, and was inula Its prishlenL Wllh an Idea Unit suih a Junta oould flourl.li In Canada, ha left Madrl I nnd went to Munlrcul Ho hathtrnthiru fur tint pssl several necks. "au benr to much of Atiurleaii liidepcndeniu In Onnda,"bu cuiitlnuid, "that I deter-inluid deter-inluid to couiu In ro and get aomoof IL" |