Word: filipinos
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...Filipino who told the Japs where to find 5,000 gallons of gasoline was shot because he failed to find more...
...seven-year-old Filipino boy made the mistake of walking behind a sentry instead of in front. The sentry ran him through with a bayonet. The boy's father tried to retrieve his body, was bayoneted...
...apparently the Japs had not yet found a really effective Filipino quisling. They announced the creation of a puppet Cabinet, with President Quezon's old aide, plump, moon-faced Jorge B. Vargas as "Chief Administrator." But U.S. Filipinos took Tokyo's announcement with a handful of salt, still had faith in Quezon's Vargas...
There was evidence last week that the Japs were working hard to overcome Filipino sales resistance. Some of the evidence was dropped by Japanese airmen over Douglas MacArthur's lines. Said the pamphlets, characteristically Japanese in their threatening but absurd lingo: "Newly issued war note is controlling more and more the financial activities of Manila day after day. For this reason the money you are receiving from the American forces as your salary is losing its value and will be waste paper in the near future...
...open-air wards of Bataan Hospital lie U.S. and Filipino soldiers, women, children, Japanese prisoners. Nurses sleep under trees, near fox holes, wash their own overalls, bathe in streams. Food is cooked on two old-fashioned wood stoves. All equipment is sterilized, but the thick Bataan dust is everywhere, and assistants must constantly flap fly swatters...