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Show UNCLE SAM GETS MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR, ' SBBa0BSaBflBsi f WASHINGTON, April 23. Official advice ad-vice received at the Navy department from the Philippine record the discovery discov-ery of a number of valuable island in the southern part of the archipelago, which are not on any. of the chart In th possession of the Government Bo far as known no foreign Government a yet ha laid claim to this territory, and to preclude the presentation of such claims, Secretary Moody ha taken step to have the island properly charted A the property of the United States, after first having every effort made to learn if any Government ha ground for claim to the new Islands. A naval vessel will probably be ordered to the southern part of the archipelago to prepare necesary chart. |