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Show Wood Calls for Report. Washington, June 12. General Wood has cabled to Major General Bell, commanding the Philippine division, divi-sion, for an Immediate report on the operations Brigadier General Persh-Ing Persh-Ing Is conducting against the Moros in the Jolo archipelago. The war department knows nothing of the details of the operations, as General Pershing had beu given a free hand to deal with the problem Of disarming the Moros in his own way. and the distance from Zamboan ga. the Jdlo capital, to Manila, Is so great and the communications so un certain that reports from the seen5 are very meager. The general staff Is considerably disturbed by the mention of the sultan of Jolo as leading the hostile Moros, for It had been understood that lie had thrown his Influence with the Americans in the disarmament pro iram. |