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Miss Helen B. Chapin of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will give an illustrated lecture on Buddhist Art in India and Java under the auspices of "The Massachusetts Indian-Students' Association" at the Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. Members of the University are invited to attend...
General Wood, who had been visiting Java on invitation of the Dutch Government, returned to Manila. He declined to comment on the Frear resolution. The Dutch Governor of Java, Fock, will visit the Philippines in March. The object of the mutual visits of the Governors is to exchange knowledge of the art of colonial Government...
...next news was that General Wood, who had returned to Manila from Mindanao before setting out on a visit to Java, had vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature. This bill was to remit penalties for nonpayment of land taxes in 1923. Filipinos, like U. S. farmers, have suffered lately and are crying for aid -more however on account of crop losses than prices-but General Wood did not regard the situation as sufficiently serious to warrant abandonment of penalties for nonpayment of taxes. The Legislature is expected to rise in protest-the Governor having departed for Java. The weathermen...
...further add to the belief that General Wood had deliberately turned his back on the malcontents of the Filipino Legislature, instructions were sent from the State Department that he should visit the Straits of Java to confer with the Governor of the Dutch East Indies...
...their new route, the first regular service of its kind in existence, the seven circumnavigators will sail from San Francisco via Japan, China, the Philippines, Java, Straits Settlements, Singapore, India, Suez, Egypt, Mediterranean ports, New York, the Panama Canal to San Francisco again. They will fly the American flag, and the Dollar Line guarantees their operation for at least five years. The sale price will not be announced until the contracts are sealed and delivered...