This is imperative.

Can ask Insurgent generals or Aguinaldo for permission to occupy their trenches, but if refused not to use force." On the same day General Anderson wrote to Aguinaldo, asking permission to occupy a trench facing blockhouse No.

14, in order to place artillery to destroy it.

The permission was granted on the following day.
During the early part of August, Aguinaldo seems to have avoided conferences with American officers.

On the second of the month Mabini wrote him how he had put off Admiral Dewey's aid with a false statement that he did not know Aguinaldo's whereabouts.