FILIPINO UNREST AMERICA AS GUARDIAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 July 1927, Page 9

FILIPINO UNREST

AMERICA AS GUARDIAN

NOT READY FOR INDEPENDENCE

By Cable. — Press Association. —Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Thurs. The Governor-General of the Philippines, Major-General Leonard Wood, after a conference with the Secretary of War, Mr. Dwight Davis, expressed a hope that the islands would remain under the War Department.

This view conflicts -with the suggestion of President Coolidge to transfer the control from the War Department to the Department of the Interior.

General Wood said the Philippines needed the department’s strength and support, and it would be some time before the territory would be ready for independence. “We have put our shoulder to the wheel and we must see it through.”— A. and N.Z.

It is anticipated that at the conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Honolulu this month a burning question will be the issue of the independence of the Philippine Islands. In order to secure an impartial presentation of the case, the institute has arranged that one half of the Filipino delegation will conssit of out-aud-out advocates of independence, and the other half consisting of ardent supporters of the maintenance of American control.