Gen. Wood's Drastic Proposals Manila, July 23.
The Wood-Forbes mission is making a preliminary report to President Harding this week which, it is understood, foreshadows the final recommendations, which are expected to include the retention of the Islands and the continuation of autonomy with closer American supervision, the thorough cleaning out of the courts and inefficient bureaux, the rehabilitation of the finances of the Islands and the breaking up of the peonage system. It is not indicated whether a date has been. set for future independence.
The mission is leaving for Mindanao on Saturday and will probably leave the Islands for. China in six weeks.
Friends of General Wood express the belief that he would accept the Governorship of the Philippines if it were offered to him.—Reuter.
Ir will doubtless interest our readers to learn that the motor-vessel of 250 tons, now being advertised as for sale by Messrs. Bowern & Ca., played an interesving part in one of the dramatic events of the Great War. She is the vessel in which the First Lieutenan' and part of the crew of the German cruiser Emden made their escape from Cocos Island, after the Emden had been sunk there by H.M.A.S. Sydney. The vessel was built some 20 years ago, as a pleasure yacht for the German Emperor, and under sail has a speed of 15 knots, while on motor-power, with which she has recently been fitted, she has an average speed of eight knots without the use of sails, on a consumption of 112 gallons of oil for 24 hours.
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