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...Jap Moves Down
...Cebu, fairest and wealthiest island of the lovely Visayan Sea, lay helpless before the clutch of the Jap. For days the city of Cebu, second largest in the Philippines (pop. 142,912), had been all but deserted. The two movie houses were still showing outdated U.S. films; a few customers still tapped the dwindling supply of beer and whiskey in the Vienna...
Cebu, 360 miles southeast of Manila, knew what was coming when the Jap finished up on Bataan. Last week, sure enough, the Jap came to Cebu...
...When the Jap struck Cebu, he struck with overwhelming force. One day ten transports and five warships stood off the harbor where the rusty bones of sunken ships thrust above the blue water, and the skeletons of destroyed oil installations lay dead against the background of waving palms...
...Jap began to land men along the coast, probably about 12,000. From one of the coves a U.S. Navy PT boat whirled out, roaring like an infuriated bull, slashed into the convoy, sent a torpedo fairly into the side of a Jap second-class cruiser. She was sinking when the PT whirled away...