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Show ACT WAS NOT TO HIS; LIKING American Soldier Properly Resented Filipino's. Insult to a Spanish Officer. The story is told by an English n;v val officer who. witnessed the occurrence, occur-rence, in Manila: "As I was crossing one of the numerous bridges ' iitcrosa the Pasig river, I saw a native Filipino Fili-pino spit in the face of. a .Spanisti officer, and then run for protection to the American sentinel, who was pacing pac-ing the bridge. -' It was some time before be-fore the 'liUpiqo could make, himself understood, but when the sentry comprehended com-prehended his action was very prompt indeed:; He handed his gun to the Spanish officer, caught the native by the nape of the neck and the seat of his trousers, and pitched hiriv off the bridge into the Pasig river.-. Tlren ho calmly took his gun from .the officer, and began pacing his beat',' as 'if nothing noth-ing had happened." Unidentified. ' s |