The Philipino government on the 27th of February, 1899, issued from Hong Kong the following decree warning the Philipino people as follows: "Manila has witnessed the most horrible outrages, the confiscation of the properties and savings of the people at the point of the bayonet, the shooting of the defenseless, accompanied by odious acts of abomination repugnant barbarism and social hatred, worse than the doings in the Carolinas.