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This War Department communique last week, like so many of its predecessors, was 100% terse pessimism. Douglas Mac-Arthur and his battle-weary, outnumbered troops were still holding Bataan Peninsula and Manila Bay's five defensive forts. But their collapse under ever-increasing enemy weight and ferocity seemed imminent as never before. With Singapore taken (see p. 18), the Jap's battering blows against Bataan's defenders were becoming heavier and more frequent...
...left China secretly because of the refusal of the Japanese authorities to grant passports, had reached Manila aboard a French steamer only 10 days before the outbreak of hostilities. Embarking on the President Coolidge, Ch'en said the first news of the new war reached the boat as it approached the international date line...
...Some ten to 20 Filipinos were executed at Fort Santiago, Douglas MacArthur's old headquarters, their bodies dumped into Manila...
...Japs had learned much, or nothing, in a decade in China, about the treatment of conquered people. The citizens of Manila prepared grimly to endure. They listened to the defiant rumble of MacArthur's cannon, echoing across the Bay. Their spirits quickened. Over the dead city went a whispered defiance: "MacArthur will have dinner in a Manila hotel before the end of the month...
...front and says the men ask for all sorts of things from him, including writing their letters home and confessing about the past. On Christmas Day, Borneman, as all other chaplains, carried as many as 1,200 greetings and cablegrams from the troops at the front to Manila, having to brave bombings and strafings en route...