CHAPTER V

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The China Sea. Manila Bay—Strange Scenes and Strange Peoples. First Home in Manila—“Getting Used” to my Environment. Seventy Thousand American Troops. General Arthur MacArthur—Social Coolness. Intrigue—Assassinations—Problems. Progress of Pacification. A Typhoon. American Presidential Campaign. Civil and Military Rule. September first—The Commission begins to Exercise Authority.