Show FILIPINOS gil can STAND ONO RONE PRESIDENT DECLARES TIME HAS COME TO GRANT philippine PHILIPPIN E independence secretary baker deliver delivers a message left by wilson to member members of special commission of forty prominent resident residents of islands 11 washington ashington 1 of the spec spee lal till blon of the log eg cloture here seeking immediate independence pen dence for lie the island 4 ere on oil arll 4 told by bec hiker that ho he poke president pres adent lill lillions elsons ll sons mind win 1 I N when lie n lie uld lie belleek bel leed tle file time had conic ironic to grant the lie rim lice desired b the leople the ar secretary alo al o said he be licked the mission mould be able to carry home hoine thord that the american people lod ilbert too toos dearly to deny it to others lie read ft a letter left by president ellon when he lie ment nent to europe expressing pre ising the hope that the mission mould result in bringing about the tie de arable end ends set forth in the joint 4 int rebo n lution of the legislature obstacle obstacles have vanished F fionch anali burton durton Ila Ision gobernor goer nor general of the philippines followed mr volker with the statement that his expel lence in the islands had con vinced him film that the tile obstacles to ind independence pen dence that appeared app pared to exist a few years ago had ben cleared away the mission including forty prom anent filipinos and bendul by manuel quezon president of the senate upon being received in secretary bakers office presented a formal memorial asking independence and pointing particularly ticul arly to the record of the pines in the gnat war |