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Then there was the question of paper: our first consignment from stateside-40 tons-was mysteriously shunted from the sidewalk in front of the printers to Bilibid Prison and then to a windowless warehouse near the Pasig River. When we finally got most of it back our Manila staff took turns guarding it day and night; it was worth $75,000 on the black market...
...taken four months of prodigious labor by bald, burly Commodore William Aloysius Sullivan, the Navy's chief of salvage, and the thousand-odd officers & men of his Manila-Subic Harbor Clearance Group. In clearing approach channels, the slips and the Pasig River (where wrecks lay three deep in spots) they had fished up more than 400 Jap craft, large & small. A few they had beached for salvage; many they had refloated with big air bubbles pumped into the holds, to be hauled away bottoms-up and sunk again...
...hundred miles and we won't let those feather merchants beat us in." Through a mid-morning mist the 37th saw Manila at last. The ist Cavalry, plunging ahead to liberate Santo Tomas, did beat them in, but it was the 37th which paddled across the Pasig River to seize the old walled Intramuros, where the vindictive Japs trapped in Manila fought to the end. Then the 37th turned north again to join the 33rd in the capture of Baguio...
...There is no explaining wartime reading tastes," cabled TIME Correspondent William Gray from Manila. "Tonight I climbed to an artillery observation post beside the Pasig River overlooking the besieged Intramuros. Beyond its far wall the Manila Hotel's north wing was burning. Two hundred yards across the river a concrete building was ablaze. Shells from our Long Toms whistled past. Below us machine guns sputtered. Through it all Captain Francis X. Shannon Jr. of Cincinnati sat in a chair and calmly read a paperbound book. I glanced at the title. It was Margery Wilson's Pocket Book...
...third comes from Bill Gray, sent just before the last Japs in Manila were killed. It was datelined "a military observation post beside Manila's Pasig River...