Word: mindoro
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...little boats pitched and shivered in the high swells; the hardiest officers aboard thought that their necks were snapping off. They sympathized with Mrs. MacArthur, the boy and Ah Ju. Toward dawn, three hours behind schedule, the little fleet made its intended landfall-on or near the Island of Mindoro, no more than 100 miles from the nearest Japanese lines, no farther from Manila. Awaiting General MacArthur were two Flying Fortresses. Exactly how and where they found concealment and landing space, was something the Japs may never know...
...Mindanao, where a small U.S. force was still intact, there must have been more activity of the same kind. The Japanese ordered all civilians to turn in their cutting instruments, even the bolos they use to cut underbrush. Then the Jap landed troops and tanks on the island of Mindoro, across Verde Inland Passage from Luzon...
...staff. It took two years, many tons of rifle ammunition and the caginess of General Frederick Funston to capture and subdue Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901. As early as 1903, his ex-aide, Quezon, was working hand-in-glove with the conquering Yanquis as prosecutor for Tabayas and Mindoro Provinces. He has been drawing a government paycheck ever since...
Theodore Roosevelt '08, retiring Governor-General of the Philippines, has notified the Museum of Comparative Zoology that he has obtained two specimens of the rare Philippine Buffalo known as Tamaro, for the museum. The Tamaro is only found in the dense jungles of the island of Mindoro. Mr. Roosevelt Returned to Manila with the specimens after a sixty hour trip by aeroplane...
Philippines. A cable from Manila told of the purchase of the Mindoro Sugar Co. by Most Reverend Michael O'Doherty. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila, for $1,500,000. This news betokened the continued potency of the Church in the only Christian country in the Orient. By far the biggest business interests in the Philippines are Roman Catholicism's. When the U. S. took the Islands over from Spain, William Howard Taft had to negotiate a separate arrangement with the Church for its extensive "friar lands." settled by early Spanish brotherhoods. The U. S. paid the church...