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Three weeks after they occupied Manila, the Japs had not yet produced a quisling for the Philippines...
...Aguinaldo (who led the Philippine Insurrection in 1899) might head a Vichyfied government, nothing had been heard of General Aguinaldo. A Jap-inspired rumor that Manuel Quezon's old friend and secretary, Jorge Vargas, had sold out to the invaders, in return for a job as mayor of Manila, was promptly squelched by Manuel Quezon himself. Said President Quezon: "I appointed [Vargas] Mayor of Greater Manila ... in line with MacArthur's plans ... to maintain order and prevent looting...
...have not received any communication from Vargas since the entry of the Japanese forces into Manila, nor do I expect any from him now. But I feel certain that he will not do anything that would be contrary to his oath of allegiance to the United States...
Douglas MacArthur had chosen his position well. Only his left flank, on the sea south of the blackened ruins of Olongapo naval station, was exposed. The right lay on Manila Bay, and the guns of Corregidor still kept the bay clear of heavy Jap forces...
...Bulkeley slipped into Subic Bay one night and sank a 5,000-ton Jap ship, got away clean. A week later Bulkeley returned, this time in a torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...