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On February 9, General MacArthur gave the following instructions to
the Commanding General, Department of the Visayas:--
"The Military Governor desires that you report to this office at
the earliest date practicable the provinces in your department that
may be considered ready for the establishment of civil governments
therein and in this connection directs me to say that it should not
be considered as necessary that complete pacification has been brought
about in a province before reporting it as ready for such government;
that the provincial civil governments to be established will doubtless
prove useful agents in the further work of pacification."
On February 27, that officer reported that in his opinion Iloilo,
Capiz, Oriental Negros and Occidental Negros were ready; that Antique
might be in a few days, and that Cebu, Bohol and Leyte were not. These
facts were reported to Governor Taft by General MacArthur on March 4,
and on the same day Lieutenant-Colonel Crowder wrote to the commanding
general of the Visayas:--
"The Military Governor directs me to say that he regards the initiation
of provincial civil government as an aid in the work of pacification,
in which view it is not necessary that a province should be completely
pacified as a condition to the initiation of such government.
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