Word: corregidor
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...Missouri's Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, author of the Philippine independence bill in Congress, last week continued to stir the brown-skinned natives to feverish excitement. Old Army men were shocked, politicos delighted, when he proposed that the U. S. turn over its fortress and defense works at Corregidor to the Filipinos. Voicing the sentiment of U. S. residents, the Manila Herald flayed the Senator for hobnobbing exclusively with the natives, for discourteously ignoring U. S. officials. So alarmed was one large commercial house over the prospect of independence that it applied to Lloyd's for insurance rates...
...colony have only three firearms: the superintendent carries an automatic and has a shotgun for hunting, the keeper of the funds also has a pistol. The Colonel found the system ideal, again doffed his helmet, proceeded on his way to Mindoro,* to Sulu, where a sultan reigns, finally past Corregidor† and back into Manila, where he told the press that the only unpleasant part of his sentimental journey had been the parades of febrile natives carrying such signs as "No Bacon sandwich for us"** and many another similar legend. Enterprising Manila politicians had prepared and shipped these placards...
...Upon Mindoro ("Mine of Gold"), now known as "Malaria Island," are situated the famed Havemeyer sugar plantations. †Once upon a time there eloped from Cavite, ancient Spanish Philippine settlement, a nun and a friar who were pursued by the high sheriff (el corregidor). The nun was caught on a little island off Manila Bay now named Lamonja (the nun) ; the friar on an islet now called El Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns...
...four American assistant chiefs of the Constabulary under a Spanish brigadier. The army forces in the Philippines are cut down far below the margin of safety; and the coastal defences have been stripped to the limit. Philippine autonomy as it exists today is protected not by the battery at Corregidor or the guns of Cavite, but by such teeth as there are in the four-power treaty. Meanwhile, the islands have thrived under American rule; sanitation, communications, and the general welfare of the people have all improved greatly...
Shortly after entering the Coast Artillery in 1908, he was sent to the Philippines, being stationed at Fort Mill, Corregidor Island, the main defense of Manila Bay, the scene of Admiral Dewy's famous victory. Returning to the United, States, he was assigned to Fort Andrews and Fort Strong in Boston Harbor, during...