Forgotten Warriors of the Katipunan (Selected Excerpts from El Comercio, Diario de la Tarde)

FROM THE PREFACE"Presented here are excerpts from El Comercio, the leading afternoon daily in the late 19th century, relating to the revolution against Spain starting from its outbreak in 1896 all the way to December 1897, when the revolutionary forces and Spain concluded the Biak-na-Bato truce that resulted in the exile of Emilio Aguinaldo to Hong Kong. Umberto Lammoglia painstakingly pored over dailyh accounts of El Comercio, selected the excerpts , and translated them into English. He also provided an index of Filipinos described int eh accounts, who were arrested, killed in battle, deported or executed during the revolution. Lammoglia completed this project in 1996 and died two years later. In 2012, his sister, Ms. Anna Maria Lammoglia Harper, graciously handed over her brother's manuscript to the National Historical Commission of the Philippines. Umberto and Anna Maria are grandchildren of Apoloonio de la Cruz, a katipunero who worked at the Diario de Manila and was arrested soon after the discovery of the Katipunan in August 1896, subsequently charged with rebellion and membership in an illicit association, was tried, found guilty and, along with nine comrades in the Katipunan, executed in Bagumbayan on 6 February 1897. Apolonio was 33 at the time of the execution."