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Show H PROGRESS IN PHILIPPINES.' M Conditions Continue to Improve, Sayo B Secretary Taft. H Secrotary of War Taft has trans-. mlttcd to tho president tho anual re- Km port of tho Philippines commission to- gothor with tho separate roport of tho commission to tho civil governor of HP) tho Islands and of .tho heads of tho four departments and tho president Bw transmitted them, with tho secretary's lottor, to congress. Tho secretary says in his letter of, transmittal to tho president that tho reports show tho great benefit which JBJ has been conferred upon tho Islands by & continued stato of tranquility, Except In tho wild mountainous ro- Klons of tho unexplored island of Sa- mar and In tho Moro region of tho Rio Grande and Lako Lanao districts, in tho sparsely settled Island of Jolo, jH. conditions as to tranquility and la- dronlsm, ho says continue to improve jHJ and except in tho places mentioned m agrlculturo and tho arts of peace aro B not at all interfered with by lawless B c bands or depredations. |