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Part of The Little Apostle of the Mountain Province
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- Current Events
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- English
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- 1924
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- 63 r"ll9,...WWWll!l!!lAIC!!':'~«!PS::•rQ~-::::.-a-.---~:=-..r!llllia31.tMLi!l;]ISC!IWI;-........ , I+ CURRENT EVENTS+ I L. ..... ,...lll!!l•ID""':lll*£=--=•Q~-:...;;;i--a-a1._•••.._mn~•.--•u•i:l<Dull!llJm~•ii:1--~c:;;-.a.am.J Philippines July 20-25. The papers talk much about famine in Nueva Vizcaya. Many immigrants from llocos and other provinces have settled in Nueva Vizcaya. They are ordinarily poor people. As it is the time of planting rice, there are very few pounds of rice for sale. So naturally prices go up. The poor can not a:tiord to pay these prices, Hence the famine. Besides much rice bas been exported to Isabela. · Hence more scarcity of palay in Nueva Vizcaya. July 25. A long time ago several hundred Filipinos working on sugar plantations in Hawaii began a strike to seek an increase of wages. Lately many of the striking laborers got displeased with their leaders. "' Messrs. Quezon an Osmena are visiting Europe. They did Yery well.Some etlicacious work for independence may be done in Europe. Several nations have a great interest in the future of the Philippines. "' Senator Vicente Vera proposed a bill rendering divorce more easy and the marriage requirements more difficult. .,,. It is a shame to read what has been said before the committee which bas to report on the advisability of introducing again the red-light district in Manila. In vain shall such a district be permitted,. in vain shall the vigilance of the policemen be redoubled, if religion has not been deeply instilled into the hearts of the youth. "" Several secretaries were requested by the Philippine Senate to apprnr before this legislative body to explain some of their actions. Secretary Agoncillo refused. The principle involwd in this fi.g'ht iE this : are the secretaries responsi.ble both to the Go\·ernor General and the Senate, or to the Governor General only? "" A movement is on foot in Manila askinj!' the complete freedom of all lepers. A proposition in the Legislature to have a woman nominated as representath·e to succeed ex-representath"e Piang, was defeated. "" One oft.he northern most Babt:Jan Islands is to be evacuated by the poptilation. An active. \'olcano pouring out continually burning lava might kill all the inhabitants. "" Lightning caused the explosion of the dynamite stored up on Talim island (Laguna de Bay). Two soldiers were killed and several children lightly wounded.