Irreconcilables (Philippines)

In pursuance of authority obtained from the War Department by cable under date December 27, 1900, the following named persons, whose overt acts have clearly revealed them as in aid of, or in sympathy with, the insurrection and the irregular guerrilla warfare by which it is being maintained and whose continued residence in these Islands is, in every essential regard, inimical to the pacification thereof, will be deported at the earliest practicable date to the Island of Guam, there to be held under surveillance or in actual custody, as circumstances may require, during the further progress of hostilities and until such time as the restoration of normal peace conditions in the Philippines has resulted in a public declaration of the termination of such hostilities: General officers: Artemio Ricarte, Pio del Pilar, Maximo Hizon, Mariano Llanera, Francisco de los Santos.

Subordinate insurgent officers: Juan Leandro Villarino, Jos Mata, Ygniidio de Jesus, Alipio Tecson.

Civil officials, insurgent agents, sympathizers and agitators: Apolinario Mabini, Pablo Ocanijio, Maxiinino Trias, Simon Tecson, Pio Varican, Anastasio Carmona, Mariano Sevilla, Lauuel R. Roxas.

[3] An initial group of more than thirty leaders of Philippine Revolution, including Pio del Pilar and Apolinario Mabini were transported to Guam aboard the SS Rosecrans.

A week later, on February 1, 1901, the USS Solace arrived with eleven more deportees, who were transferred to join the others on the Rosecrans while a three-acre site between Piti and Hagåtña, was razed and the construction of the Presidio (prison) de Asan began.

He he issued this statement to the press on the day he sailed:[5] After two long years I am returning, so to speak, completely disoriented and, what is worse, almost overcome by disease and sufferings.