UNREST IN AMERICAN POSSESSIONS.
OFFICIALS BECOMING CONCERNED. By Telegraph. —Pre** Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Aissociatiou. WASHINGTON. January 9. Dissatisfaction among tho inhabitants of tho United States insular possessions took concrete form to-day when a Filipino Mission presented Congress with formal charges regarding General Wood’s maladministration and alleged over-stepping of authority, and urged immedihto consideration of tho question of Philippine independence. A commission of eleven members representing Porto Rico sailed for Washington to-dav to present a petition to Congress asking for changes in the fundamental law giving them greater freedom of self-government, and to request the enunciation of tho United fctates intentions concerning Porte Rico’s final status. Officials are inclined to view with concern the dissatisfaction and unrest existing under American administration of insular possessions.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17245, 11 January 1924, Page 10
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