Word: davao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Japanese blows at the Philippines were struck, not at Manila, but at Davao in the extreme south, where a great part of the Philippines' Japanese population (29,000) lives. The aircraft tender Langley was hit. Up north the Japanese bombed the Army's Fort Stotsenburg, the summer capital Baguio, then dropped leaflets promising the Filipinos that they would be liberated quickly...
Hemp. The U.S. gets over 90% of its hemp fiber from the Philippines, especially the Province of Davao, where most of the growers and exporters are Japanese. No official figures are available of bales on hand, but estimates place reserves at six to eight months' supply...
...defense, the Philippines group themselves into three sectors: Mindanao, the Visayans and Luzon. Mindanao, which has 18,000 Japanese concentrated around Davao (pop. 95,444), is patently a salient, to be yielded in the face of an overwhelming assault. But the Visayans and Luzon, with 95% of the Philippines' population (16,356,000) and industry, form a tactical unit. The narrow, treacherous outer passages of the Visayans can be mined, and in protected inner passages light naval craft could lie in relative security between sorties against an invader...