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The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2)

CHAPTER XVII
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Finding him buried under blankets, we asked his views as to the Benguet climate.

They were radical! It is only fair to the Major to say that the report which he ultimately made set forth the facts fully and fairly.

It did not suit General MacArthur.

Years afterward, when discussing the climate of Benguet with Surgeon-General Sternberg, I referred to this report and found to my amazement that he had never seen it.

He caused an investigation to be made, and it was at last resurrected from a dusty pigeonhole.
On our arrival at Trinidad we received a letter from Mr.Otto Scheerer, the one white resident of Benguet, inviting us to make our headquarters at his house when we visited Baguio.


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