'Manila, June 12, 'The Philippine Islands will Gefinitely be granted complete in @opendence on July 4, 1939, instead of in 1945, the National' Assembly told to-night by Sr. Felipe Buen comino, who recently returned from Washington and London, where he represented the Islands at the World Sugar Conference. Sr, Manuel Quezon and President Roosevelt, he said, decided this In four sderet meetings in Washington recently. Independence would be accompanied Atteen-year commercial trealy with the United Statex—Reuter, Exrmacts published In Fleet Orders from the quarterly returns: of signale ling exercises between HM, ships and British merchant vessels show that the Interest in this" subject, which has been encouraged by the Admiralty since the War, is well maintained, The returns show a total 1.154 sticcessful exercises carried fut in the quarter ended. December 1936, and there were only. eight failures' to establish communication While this shows a reduction on the {otal for the previous quarter (1,267),
total for the corresponding quarter of also shows a large increase on the 1935, when there were 708 successful exercises and six failures to establish communication. H.MLS, Kent, en route from China to' England, came frst in order of merit with 90 successful exerclses, HM. Resolution, Home Fleet, had 45; the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, China, 48; and IMS. Stork, East Indies, and LIME. Fowey, Per: sian Gulf, had 42 each. On the mer= cantile side, where a statement of comparative' signal eMelency is not vs the British Tanker Co's possible since opportunities are
Wessels took part in 167 exercises; those of the British India" Steam Navigation and P, & 0, Navigation Ca, 78;
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