Show SPAIN CANNOT HAVE THEM J Ii lands of the Philippine f W ill lIot II b e Returned Nary tn t Evident Sibil and II ae In the tho United Stales Chicago Feb special to the Record from Washington sayer The AmerIcan flag will not come comedown comedown down on island or on island Spain has been demanding that these be returned to It The war department was wa ready to 10 make the reo re return turn and ond so wo was the state department up to toda today The n navy department was however unwilling to surrender any anything nn thing It had taken and has made Its title good to the Islands The state Hate de department department will Inform Spain that the islands are the of the tho Unites United States and ond will hold them I is out east of Borneo and I is west of Mindoro about miles n was f saved to 10 the thc United States by the discovery today of at on an old treaty between Spain Great Britain wd and let Ger German man many which sp specifically says MY that Dot Dor neos bolding shall not extend farther than three thre miles mile from the coast t of Dor DorMO MO flee Is on the opposite sIde ot of the channel separating Borneo from the Sulu archipelago As AI to Island the records sho show that It WAS at one time used os as n 11 penal colony b by Spain and the latter I Is stopped from denying that it was used ns as a part of the Philippine group |