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Balky Beneficiaries. Worst hit was the Moslem community on Mindanao around Lake Lanao. Villagers refused to stop drinking water from the lake and rivers into which they defecated, arguing "Why shouldn't I drink it, when my forefathers did and lived to be 90?" They balked at vaccinations, protesting that government health workers were "trying to inject Christian blood into our veins...
Army men recalled that it was the Moros who kept on coming when struck by .38-caliber bullets, and forced the U.S. Army to change to .45 automatics. When the time came, the Moros in Lanao Province would be of invaluable assistance...
...Lanao Province on the Philippine island of Mindanao this week, 10,000 fighting Moros sharpened kris, barong, campilan, tabas and spear for a fight to the death and no mercy asked...