WORK PRO IN philippines disarming of the moros progresses without serious trouble and lanao districts are quiet life of the soldier in our island pos po sessions not so strenuous as in the past operations being restricted to police duty manila Alan fla tho the disarming of theba alllan allian la Is progressing without serious trouble the lanao districts are quiet tho the trouble against which tho the troops were recently operating was waa sporadic and neither general nor serious major general weston who has haa re tinned tin ned to manila from an inspection or of the entire district reports that conditions are quieter than usual he pronounces the recent operations to havu havo been police rather than military the government i Is being urged to secure a loan for the purpose of in ut tilling an extended system of irrigation the islands must purchase pesos apesos of foreign rice this year malting making a total purchase during the past ten years of pesos apesos worth it la believed that irrigation will restore the crops