Governor General Frank Murphy lay ill at Wnite Sulphur Springs, W. Va. President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate was in Manhattan. Acting Governor General Joseph R. Hayden was far north in the Igorot Country on an inspection tour. Major General Frank Parker, commanding the Philippine District, was vacationing in China. A better opportunity for an uprising could scarcely have presented itself to disadvantaged Filipino hotheads. Last week they took it, with the bloodiest consequences of any Philippine revolt in the past 15 years.
The party involved was the Sakdal (a Tagalog...
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