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...date was Dec. 14, 1944. The place was Puerto Princesa in the Philippines. On that date in that place Jap guards drove 150 U.S. prisoners into air-raid tunnels, emptied gasoline into the tunnel openings and set them afire. The victims, enveloped in flames and screaming in agony, swarmed from the shelters. As they did, they were bayoneted or machine-gunned. About 40 who threw themselves over a 50-ft. cliff onto a beach were attacked by sentries on the shore. Many, moaning in agony, were buried alive...
...Puerto Princesa in Palawan, American troops came on the wreckage of the police barracks, where the Japanese had held 150 American prisoners from Bataan. There, as liberation day approached, the Japanese had forced their prisoners into underground air-raid shelters, then poured in gasoline and tossed in torches. A few men had managed to get out, run through spraying Japanese machine-gun fire and escaped. All the rest died...
...young man who had attacked Brother Gabriel was Manuel Cacho Ramirez, 28, son of a well-to-do Mexican merchant. Father Cacho, owner of Mexico City's two Princesa jewelry stores, was also a friend of President Avila Camacho. He sent word to the President, asked that the case be closed without further investigation. For Brother Manuel it must have been a sore temptation: like most Latins, he is devoted to his brothers. But he was President of Mexico. Said Manuel Avila Camacho: "I desire that strict justice be observed...