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Meanwhile the Japanese opened up a new sector last week, swinging far to the south in an enveloping action. Off Davao, 600 miles south of Manila on the Moro-inhabited island of Mindanao, the enemy appeared one day with four transports, naval and air support...
...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...
...customs collector in Davao, main town of Mindanao Island, reported last week that a number of unidentified vessels had anchored in Davao Gulf-unidentified because the nearest U. S. naval base with cutters or airplanes capable of investigating was on Manila Bay, 600 miles away. Wildly diverse reports filtered through to Manila, disagreeing as to the size and number of ships, never as to their nationality. This was because there are in Davao more than 20,000 prosperous Japanese, who control the Philippine hemp industry, own 63,800 acres under legal leases, even more illegally. At week...