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...made several addresses in the east. He comes to Boston primarily to confer with Mr. Moorfield Storey '66, a Boston attorney, who was an ardent advocate of independence for the Philippines at the time when the United States withdrew its military authority from the islands after the Spanish-American war. Mr. Storey will introduce Mr. Guevara this evening...
...Filipino politics Mr. Guevara has been an eminent figure for many years. After studying law at the University of St. Thomas in Manila, an institution founded 25 years before the founding of Harvard University in 1636, he joined the Filipino insurgents against the Spanish government in 1897, and after the Spanish-American War he continued in the insurgent ranks as a colonel, now fighting the United States administration. When the insurrection was put down, he returned to private life...
...William R. Hearst is sometimes given credit for having started the Spanish-American war. Incidentally, it was Mr. Hearst's papers which sent Eastern children and nursemaids shivering to bed by the headline: SPANISH FLEET SIGHTED. Next morning it transpired that the fleet had been sighted in the far-off Caribbean. -The Infanta Isabel (born 1851) is the aunt of King Alfonso...
...acting in Washington as one of the two official representatives to the United States of the party now in power in the Philippine Congress. He is coming to Boston to confer with Attorney Morfield Storey '66, who vigorously denounced in 1898 the annexation of the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War. He was invited by telegram last night to speak at the Union Friday evening, but his acceptance had not yet come at a late hour last night. It is probable, however, that Mr. Guavara will accept the invitation...
...command. In 1885-6 he was on an exploring expedition in Alaska. From 1890-95 he served as a military attache in Russia, and from 1895-98 he acted in the same capacity in Germany. He was called from this life to the Phillipines in 1898, when the Spanish-American War broke out. Here he spent a few years...