Philperiodicals

The defense of Malolos

Graphic, which started publication on August 26 1927, was an English-speaking illustrated magazine, owned by the famous journalist Ramon Roces and edited by A. C. Fabian. It included sections on American and Philippine politics, sports and economics, and a weekly news digest, in addition to sections on cooking, beauty, and house-holding, or educational schools and school activities. It also included comics, short stories, and poems, which made it suitable for a broad public. In an article published on June 4, Mabini Rey Centeno remembered the defense of Malolos against the Spaniards on June 1 1897 with illustrations by A. S. Velasquez depicting victorious general Isidoro Torres and the Filipino “patriots” who died. The article reconstructed the siege, praising Malolos’ “native bravery”, Filipino preparedness, and revolutionists' courage, which kept invaders at bay despite their death-dealing rifles and superior technology, but only thanks to the sacrifice of some revolutionaries for the country. This is a good example of how the victory over Spain had been affected by another silenced victory, that of America over Malolos, even though it implied that the revolutionaries were ready to sacrifice everything for “Bayan Ko”, their (free) country.

Fecha

1936-06-04

Fuente

Centeno, Mabini Rey. “The defense of Malolos”, Graphic, vol IX, num. 51, June 4, 1936, pp. 17, 50.  In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Autoría

Mabini Rey Centeno

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Idioma

English

Materia

Anniversaries

Defense of Malolos

Philippine Revolution