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Coming in the greatest week of the war -when the Jap Cabinet fell, the Russians denounced their neutrality pact with the Japanese, the remnants of the Jap fleet were almost put out of business; when U.S. spearheads cut to within 128 miles of Berlin, and General Patton stumbled on the fabulous Nazi gold hoard-Eisenhower's letter had a sobering effect...
Until the Manila Electric Co. plants could be rebuilt, a feeble flow of power was being supplied by Army portable generators. Manila Electrics local plant was almost rubble, its two hydroelectric plants outside the city were still in Jap hands, and reported heavily damaged. Manila Electric's president, J. C. Rockwell, who had been interned at Santo Tomas, gloomily estimated that it would cost $6,000,000 to restore the city's prewar electric supply of 42,000 kilowatts. As of last week even that was academic. New equipment must be shipped in before...
...Assistant Philippine Sugar Administrator gravely warned of a probable sugar shortage in 1946. The jungle was closing in on many sugar plantations abandoned during Jap occupation. The midget railways that hauled cane from the fields to the mills had been carried away by the Japs...
Here was no Iwo Jima. On this island, 60 miles long and two to 20 miles wide, there was room to land and maneuver. Jap opposition on the beach was almost nonexistent. Quickly the troops moved inland through a maze of tiny one-and two-acre farms. They spread north and south, pushed eastward. Still resistance remained slight. Some men marched a mile without hearing a shot...
Toward Victory. A great gap had been torn in the Jap blockade. Supplies, flowing up the Ledo-Burma Road, were revitalizing Chungking's ragged riflemen. Not even the Jap capture of Laohokow and its U.S. air base (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) could hide the overall fact that China's armed strength was increasing...