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...Threats. Meantime, in the sheltered water of Lamon Bay, first at Atimonan and later at Mauban, the Jap put down another heavy force. It had tanks, and tanks were sent out to meet it. In a heavy engagement both sides suffered considerable losses on a battlefield between 60 and 75 miles from Manila. From Lamon Bay the Jap thrust toward the southwest, flung himself across the narrow peninsula south from Mauban to Tayabas...
Calvary at Cavite. Meanwhile Jap bombers smashed again at the Naval base at Cavite. Armed with the fruits of his fifth column's reconnaissance, he knew here, as at other targets, exactly what he was shooting at, wasted his bombs only because many of them were duds and because his aim was not nearly as good as it looked in the first week...
...sheer repetition he was effective. Toward week's end columns of smoke rising from Cavite told Manilans that the base's supplies were being destroyed-whether by the Jap or by their defenders, they could not tell. Cavite, once a powerful secondary Naval base, was all but out of action, could not be used in any event until the Jap was curbed...
...Propaganda. The Jap dropped propaganda leaflets while his fifth columnists on the ground (including members of the native Sakdalista Party) spread rumors of poisoned water supplies, of many another horror. The Filipinos were poor subjects. Like the Russian peasant when Germany struck, they knew only that the invader was trying to take their land. The native soldier fought with increased bitterness...
...night, along all the fronts, the battle went on. The Jap came upon his own parties, fired on them by mistake. Probably U.S. defenders did too, but more rarely because the Nip had the initiative, had to keep moving. On the northern front pious Filipino troops identified themselves at night by shouting "Adios Ko" (God be with you). The Jap caught on and echoed the password, but his accent was wrong and his shout brought destruction from Filipino rifles...