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...pretty, 26-year-old Filipino actress, Corazon Noble, began the testimony, with which the prosecution intended to prove that Japanese atrocities were part of Yamashita's plan. She had taken refuge with her ten-month-old baby in a Red Cross emergency hospital during the Battle for Manila, had been trapped there by four Japanese sailors. One had raised his rifle, fired, wounded her in the elbow. Then the Japs bayoneted...
...fires roared in the city, Japanese troops rounded up thousands of Russian, Chinese, Filipino and Spanish women and girls, chose the prettiest, led them off to Manila hotels to be raped. In one week 476, some no older than twelve, were hustled away. Some were back to testify last week...
Second, there was the problem of 450 miserable Filipino men, women and children who had moved into our building bag & baggage. ("Day after day the garbage accumulated outside the doors and windows, and at mealtimes the office was so filled with smoke you couldn't see across it.") We hadn't the heart to throw them out on the street, so we bought most of them off for ten pesos. Then we tried turning off the water, but "the plumber had hardly left when our resourceful guests hack-sawed through the main." (At last report TIME-in-Manila...
...potent Elizalde interests, which have a finger in most Filipino enterprises, expect to start two ships plying between the Islands this month. The Philippine Airlines has been reorganized, with the help of 560,000 pesos from Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., in exchange for a 28% interest in the company. But it is still awaiting planes to resume flying. Procter & Gamble's Philippine Manufacturing Co. (soaps, lard, coconut products) does not expect to get into production until next spring. Most industrial plants were destroyed, along with the Islands' chief industrial cities, Manila, Cebu and Iloilo. Salvage work on plants...
...long run, Filipino businessmen knew that reconstruction is more a political than an industrial problem. Will the U.S. advance funds to shore up the bankrupt Philippine Treasury and grant long-term credits for the purchase of machinery? More important, will Philippine independence, scheduled for June 1, 1946, mean that the U.S. will throw up a tariff wall against the import of sugar, tobacco and other products into the U.S. market? If this happens, many a Filipino businessman feels that reconstruction will be impossible...