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Though the government-controlled Philippine press reports little about the worsening war with Moslem guerrillas, military leaders speak freely with foreign correspondents. The rebels are more elusive. TIME Correspondent David Aikman made contact with a band of them last week on Basilan Island. His report...
ACOMPANIED by an intermediary - a civilian Moslem who sympathizes with the rebel soldiers - I set out from Basilan City in a motorized outrigger called a pump boat. We rode through the tranquil coastal waters for 30 minutes, then turned into a narrow creek canopied with palm fronds. It was another 30 minutes before we reached the rendezvous point - a lonely clearing on a coconut plantation...
...military award." Actually, three Filipinos have been awarded the Medal of Honor: Sergeant José Calugas, Battery B, 88th Field Artillery, Philippine Scouts, at Culis, Bataan, 1942; Fireman 2nd Class Telesforo Trinidad, U.S.N. on board U.S.S. San Diego, 1915; Private José B. Nisperos, 34th Company, Philippine Scouts, Lapurap, Basilan...
When he lately introduced a bill in Congress for partitioning the Philippines and establishing a second native government under the U. S. control in the islands of Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, Siassi, Tawi Tawi and a few others, Representative Robert Low Bacon of New York dwelt chiefly upon the temperamental and tribal differences of the morose Mohammedan Moros who live in those places and the Christian Filipinos who control the present government at Manila; upon the wisdom and justice of treating these immiscible citizens as the British treated the two strains of Irishmen. (TIME, June...
Last week Mr. Bacon read into the Congressional Record what sounded more like the real motive underlying his bill. He called attention to a Department of Commerce report; locating in Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, etc., at least a million and a half acres as good as, or better than, the acres in Sumatra and Malaya where Dutchmen and Britishers raise raw rubber for the world's markets. He said, in effect, that whereas the "selfish, shortsighted" Filipinos have repeatedly refused to permit U. S. interests to build up a much-needed raw rubber supply, by refusing to permit public lands...