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...certifi cates on which he had boldly stated the contributing cause of death as "malnutrition." To BiIibid. As General MacArthur left Santo Tomas, maimed veterans hobbled toward him to salute, and some to touch his uniform. Women embraced him; one kissed him on the cheek. He went on to Bilibid. There he saw the same human devastation, the same scars of suffering...
...notorious Bilibid, 800 prisoners had survived on a meager ration of wormy corn, rice and soybeans. But they thought this was not so bad as life in the "hellhole" camp at Cabanatuan. Survivors liberated from Cabanatuan by U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas told of the menu there two years ago: rats, cats, dogs, worms and frogs they caught hopping from latrines...
Fanned by a stiff wind from the Bay, the flames drove the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 148th Infantry (part of Ohio's 37th Division ) back from the Pasig River. The flames licked around Bilibid Prison, forcing evacuation of hundreds of civilian internees. All night the city was wreathed in fire. Next morning, as the sun burned coppery red through the pall of smoke, the two battalions of the 148th picked their way through debris and embers to the Pasig again...
...United Press' earnest, efficient Horace Quigg, who entered Manila with MacArthur, had just bedded for the night on the concrete floor of Manila's Bilibid Prison. Then he learned that some U.S. prisoners, newly freed, were on the other side of the wall. He felt his way down blacked-out corridors. "Suddenly I sensed rather than felt or saw someone beside me," he wrote. "I stuck out my hand, even as did Stanley in darkest Africa. . . 'I'm Quigg, United Press,' I said. The Dr. Livingstone of Bilibid Prison grasped my hand fervently. 'Weissblatt...
...assistants had known of anything discreditable in the new Mayor's record, until Quezon's outburst. The new Mayor, Eulogio Rodriguez, it seemed, however, had been convicted in 1900, aged 16, of procuring the abduction of a woman by bandits. He had served a year in Bilibid Penitentiary. Subsequently, 1901-1907, he was in the Government service as an interpreter arid in other capacities. In 1909 the Governor General appointed him Mayor of Montalban, Rizal. In 1916 he was elected Governor of Rizal. In 1922 he was reelected. In 1916, when elected Governor, the Governor General made...