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After World War I, the moon over the Java Sea grew ruddier than ever before. The Jap had wangled the mandated islands, and soon clamped a fortified strangle hold on the U.S.'s line of supply between Pearl Harbor and Manila. While the Jap entrenched himself he reached north into Manchuria for his supplies against the great war, then crept down China's coast toward Hong Kong. The fearful Dutch did more than the rest of the world to get ready. Dutch diplomacy, dedicated to the proposition that oil to the enemy is poison to the giver, slapped...
Blood on the Islands. The Jap's furious assault on the Philippines and Malaya has worked better than anybody but the Jap (and perhaps the Dutch) had expected. The Jap has knocked out Hong Kong and Manila, immobilized the great base at Singapore and grievously threatened its possession. Already his pathway to the Indies has been opened...
...willing to pay dearly. So last week, the sixth of the Battle of Luzon, he lashed fiercely at General Douglas MacArthur's tough little Army. MacArthur's men, holed up in the mountain-wild Bataan peninsula with an anchor below on the island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay, gave better than they received...
...extreme example was the deed of petite, Manila-bred Filipino Nurse Rebecca Salvación, who had to take cover in a shallow trench when her station was bombed. Other nurses were evacuated in ambulances. Somehow Nurse Salvación was left behind. So, too, was a U.S. Marine, wounded in the throat by a bomb fragment and calling for help from a nearby trench. Rebecca Salvación crawled from her trench, made it to a building, summoned an Army doctor, Captain Benjamin Kysor of Oswego, N.Y., to help...
...Filipinos showed amazing loyalty. One soldier orderly, left behind in the evacuation of Manila, gathered his officer's laundry up, set off through the Japanese lines. He was stopped many times, he reported, and was interviewed by Japanese officers speaking both English and Tagalog. He finally turned up in the U.S. ranks on the peninsula...