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...TIME, Dec. 15, you state: "One Japanese was arrested for snipping telephone wires" (in Manila); this a full day after the little yellow men had assassinated thousands of Americans in Hawaii. He should not have been arrested, he should have been shot immediately. This is WAR, not monkey business...
...Elizalde family was probably the richest in Manila. In terms of the potential wealth of its strategic investments, it was far richer than that would suggest. Last week there was no news of the Elizaldes' inter-island shipping fleet, gin and rum distilleries, three sugar mills, lumber company, insurance companies, paint and floor-wax factory, huge rope factory, cattle ranch, iron mines, gold mines...
...Manila is mainly inhabited, not by Americans, but by Filipinos. Loyal as the Filipinos have been, their loyalty could not be expected to improve if they were bombed to a cinder while under grossly inadequate U.S. protection. But if the Japs bombed the city after the Americans retired, the Filipinos would well know who was their enemy...
...boarded a British destroyer, which slipped by blockading Japanese warships and steamed into Manila Bay through strange mine fields which sank an intercoastal steamer. From Manila he hurried to Dutch Borneo, then to Singapore. From Singapore he got to Médan on Dutch Sumatra, took the last commercial plane to Rangoon. On Dec. 28 the Japanese made their parachute attack...
Later Bowditch was on the first Salem ship to visit Manila, where he admired the girls. "You can live with them in their houses," he wrote, "like man and wife. . . . Their dress is chiefly in white with a small skirt which reaches no lower than their knees, so that a small puff of wind would discover their nakedness. . . ." Pucelage was giving way to a certain worldliness...