December 29, 1897: the leaders of Biak-na-Bato passed a resolution accusing Aguinaldo's group of leaving them without any support
(Aguinaldo with some of his men at Biak na Bato 1897, his right hand resting on the shoulder of Fernando Primo de Rivera)
On December 29, 1897, the leaders of Biak-na-Bato, led by Isabelo Artacho, Artemio Ricarte, Jose Salvador Natividad, Paciano Rizal, and Francisco Makabulos, met and passed a resolution accusing General Emilio Aguinaldo's group in Hongkong of leaving them without any support and proposing that the unpaid balance of 400,000 pesos of the indemnity money should be distributed among the most needy insurgents.