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I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, Rounsevelle Wildman, Consul-General. Hon. Marcus Hanna, United States Senate, Washington. Mr. Andre, the Belgian Consul at Manila, an important man, wrote the American Commission in Paris, that "everybody in the Philippines, even Spanish merchants," begged the Americans for protection, and added: "The Indians do not desire independence.
In response to an invitation from Mr. Rounsevelle Wildman, United States Consul at Hongkong, I wended my way to the United States Consulate and between 9 and 11 p.m. of the same day I had an interview with him. Mr. Wildman told me that Admiral Dewey left for Manila hurriedly in accordance with imperative orders from his Government directing him to attack the Spanish Fleet.
The literati argued that at the rate at which the Emperor was going, it might be expected that he would do away with chop-sticks and dispense with the queue. Rounsevelle Wildman in "China's Open Door." The year that Kuang Hsu ascended the throne a great calamity occurred in Peking.
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