Word: visayan
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...Cebu, fairest and wealthiest island of the lovely Visayan Sea, lay helpless before the clutch of the Jap. For days the city of Cebu, second largest in the Philippines (pop. 142,912), had been all but deserted. The two movie houses were still showing outdated U.S. films; a few customers still tapped the dwindling supply of beer and whiskey in the Vienna...
...Irvine C. Scudder, whisked off to beach positions, pecked at the Jap. Somewhere the little M.P.s in their rumpled blue uniforms were fighting him too. But Cebu, only 20 miles wide, vulnerable in every spot to fire from the ships, never had a chance. The Jap was in the Visayan...
...also holds the important islands of Cebu, Negros and Panay in the Visayan...
Below Luzon, in the lovely islands of the Visayan Sea, and far south in 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...
...Colonel then desired to seek further information in the Visayan Islands; cabled to Washington for permission to use the U. S. destroyer Merritt lying idle in Manila Bay. The War Department answered, "Sorry, no funds...