It
was not until the first part of July that the price of provisions
increased. It was at no time found necessary by the authorities to take
over all the stores of provisions in the city. Indeed, there seems to
have been a fairly steady traffic in supplies between Manila and the
country to the north. It was a traffic in which it has been charged
that certain Spanish officers of rank made large sums. Aguinaldo
permitted it, and on July 26, 1898, signed an order directing that
food should be sent into Manila from the north to prevent starvation
in the city, and ordered the heads of the towns in the vicinity not
to interfere with this traffic (P.I.R., 1087-4). The entrance of food
supplies was confined to the northern line, for then it would not be
known to the Americans who, after July 30, occupied the entrenchments
in front of San Antonio Abad. It was not expedient for them to see
too much of Aguinaldo's methods."--Taylor, 14 AJ.
[107] P.I.R., 398. 2.
[108] Senate Document 331, p. 2976, 1902.
[109] P.I.R., 102-10.
[110] P.I.R., Books C-1.
[111] P.I.R., 102-10.
[112] _Ibid._
[113] P.I.R., 102. 10.
[114] _Ibid_., Books C-1.
[115] _Ibid_., 102-10.
[116] P.I.R., 102-10.
[117] Now a major-general.
[118] P.
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