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Letters to prisoners of war will be handled postage-free. They should list, after the recipient's name, his military title and branch of service, "formerly of" (Shanghai, Manila, Wake, Guam, etc.), and the identifying phrase: "American Prisoner in Japan, c/o International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, Switzerland." In the space for postage stamps should be written, "Prisoner of War Mail, Postage Free." Similar procedure is followed with mail for interned civilians but, pending appropriate regulations, full postage will be required...
After Jacoby's last-minute escape from Manila, his numerous close shaves on Bataan and his really dangerous escape through the Jap blockade (TIME, April 13), Australia looked almost like a tame haven...
...morning after her arrival Jacoby got a cable transferring him to Manila. He proposed from rickshaw to rickshaw as they jogged over bomb-pitted streets to attend a missionary's reception. To her rickshaw drawn by a straining coolie he shouted: "Say, will you marry me?" Pretty dark-eyed Annalee, craning backward, shouted: "What did you say?" Repeated Jacoby: "I said, will you marry me?" No answer. At the reception, between introductions, he pressed for an answer. He got it after Annalee said "How do you do" to the fifth missionary. "Yes," she said...
Again she had to stay behind while he went to Manila. She caught up two weeks before Pearl Harbor. Married immediately, they slipped away for a two-day rainy honeymoon in a cottage at Tagaytay. But they were not alone; they had to see to the care & feeding of two baby giant pandas, gifts of Madame Chiang Kaishek, en route to the U.S. Their magnificent wedding presents from Chinese officials-red satin embroidered blankets, silver filigree china, Tao silver and bamboo vases-went up in smoke a week later when Manila fell...
...Japanese fleet cannot sail in that easily. Corregidor's guns still rule Manila Bay after five months of pounding, and no sizable enemy ship has yet slipped past The Rock. But it will be a sad anniversary, nonetheless, with the U.S. taking it instead of handing it out in Manila...