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...southern part of the city, hungry groups of men and boys were attacking people carrying sacks of rice, forcing them to share it. The price of a 110-lb. bag of rice had soared from eight to 20,000 pesos. By now starvation was an old story to Manila...
General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Singapore and Bataan, was about to evacuate Manila and take to the hills of northern Luzon, to get away from General Douglas MacArthur's advancing legions. To Jap correspondents in Manila, Yamashita declaimed & explained: "At last I have MacArthur in my iron trap. I have been chasing him all over the South Seas and each time he has slipped away from me. This time it will be different, and my pleasure of a face-to-face meeting will be realized...
...Japanese "fadeback" from Manila proved to be illusory. The enemy, it appeared, had not flatly lied when he boasted that the city was being fortified for resistance block by block, building by building; he had merely told a half-truth. It was not true in the northern sector of Manila, on the right bank of the Pasig River; it was all too true of the southern sector, on the left bank...
...enemy's whole behavior in Manila followed a planned dog-in-the-manger pattern. Early in December, a month before the landings at Lingayen Gulf, the Japs had installed demolition charges in large buildings. Flimsy warehouses had been stocked with drums of gasoline. Forty-eight hours after U.S. forces entered northern Manila. Jap demolition engineers pressed the buttons. Electrically connected charges went off in series. The main business district-eight blocks of the Calle Escolta-began to burn. There was no water pressure to fight the fires. Many Filipinos looked on apathetically, made no move to help U.S. soldiers...
...first the battle for southern Manila was against snipers, sporadic artillery fire and the blazes set by Jap demolitionists. Progress was fairly rapid. The 1st Cavalry Division swung around to the east, secured the water supply, and turned into the city to help the 37th...