The Memoirs of Felipe G. Calderon - Second part

Felipe Calderon
The second part of these Memoirs covers the period from May, 1899, when I returned from Batangas, until the complete restoration of peace and the present time; during the same I took a direct part in political and social events of exceptional importance.

As I have already said, in the latter half of January, 1899, I was, for the reasons already stated, obliged to go to Batangas Province. While I was at the pueblo of Lipa, where I had gone with Colonel Martin Cabrera of the Insurgent Army, to attend the ceremony of the taking of the oath to the revolutionary flag of the new levies of a battalion being organized under the orders of General Miguel Malvar, we received the news of the outbreak of hostilities in Manila, on February 4th. I have no idea how it developed and what was the immediate cause of that outbreak, but subsequently I learned a few details which clearly show that the provocation came from the Americans.