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What had happened to Quezon, Osmeña & Co. this week, nobody knew. President Quezon was supposedly still with MacArthur, probably in the island fortress of Corregidor. If Corregidor should fall, Quezon might be spirited away by plane to Australia, and there set up a Government in exile...
...taste of defeat that American soldiers had not known in a major battle since Appomattox. To the grim, battle-weary soldiers of General Douglas MacArthur, backed up into the mountainous fastnesses of the Bataan peninsula, northwest of abandoned Manila, or desperately fending off Japanese attacks on the great harbor fortress of Corregidor, this...
...battle of Luzon. Unless help should come, all the Philippines' defenders could hope for was the bitter, bloody price of a last-ditch fight. It would not be in vain. As long as the Philippines held out, the Jap could not exert his full force on the vital fortress of Singapore...
These were typical of the angry, worried words which flew in the capital of the British Empire last week when it was learned that Singapore, farthest-flung fortress of the Empire, was in grave danger. But the warning was amiss. The Government dispensed no syrup. It appointed Alfred Duff Cooper, onetime Secretary of State for War, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, onetime Minister of Information, who has been in Singapore for 15 weeks, to be Resident Minister for Far Eastern Affairs. He will have Cabinet rank, will be equal, if not superior, to Commander in Chief Air Chief Marshal...
...Japanese troops, two divisions strong, had burst through British territory to the waterfront of Kowloon (center of picture). The Japanese presented the British with an ultimatum to surrender. The British refused. At week's end the Japanese announced the opening of an all-out attack on the island fortress itself...