The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 236, Ed. 2 Thursday, February 15, 1945 Page: 5 of 18
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February 15, 1945
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Japs Shoot and Bayonet Manila Civiliar
YANKS CLOSING IN CAUTIOUSLY
ON TRAPPED NIPPON SOLDIERS
MANILA, Feb 15—(Ah — Under
skies black from new enemy de-
molition destruction. American
troops cautiously tightened an in-
Bitable death noose today on Jap-
anese so desperate they cold-blood-
edly shot and bayonetted civilians
in south Manila.
Yanks of three divisions clos-
ed to on the enemy, fighting
•for each street intersection,
amid a flood of front line re-
ports of Japanese atrocities
matching the rape of Nanking.
The Americans had to move care-
fully so as not to kill civilians with-
in the Japanese lines. Front line
SERVICE
(O'
. GUION—Pfc. Don L Bergman,
Ton of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Edenborough of Guion, has been in
service since 1142, volunteering for
service in the Army Air corps at the
age of 17, he is now an aerial gun-
ner on a B-25, stationed at Enid,
Okla.
* He trained at Ellington field.
Brooks and Randolph field, and took
PFC. DON L. BERGMAN
s special engineering course at
w Sheppard field. A graduate of the
Corrigan high school, he was en-
route to enter Texas A. & M college
when he telephoned his parents for
permission to join the sir corps.
Young Bergman flew here to
, spend Christmas holidays with his
parents st Guion. The Edenbor-
ough’s sre early settlers of Taylor
county end own and operate the
Guion store and postoffice.
„Vet of Aleutians
Service Ends Visit
Capt. Charles Arthur McClure,
for the past 23 months in the-
Aleutian" islands as communica-
tions officer in a fighter control
squadron., will leave Abilene today
-after a brief visit en route to Or-
lando, Fla . where he la to attend
senior communications school.
- After six weeks st the school.
. Captain McClure will return here
to spend s 30-day leave prior to
going back to his Aluetian base.
He has high praise for the fighter
pilots based in the Aleutians. “They
are fighting a war with weather
that is far harder than with the
actual enemy,” Captain McClure
CAPT. CHARLES A. M-CLURE
3 said. They take off, and usually
• fog is so bad they have to wait
around until all's clear before they
can come down. It isn’t at all like
landing on a smooth beach.”
Captain McClure was graduated
from Abilene high school and
| Hardin-Simmons university He was
* employed here by Southwestern
Bell Telephone company prior to
entering service. He received his
commission Dec 26, 1942, at Scott
Field, Ill. and received further
training at Orlando before going
A to the Aleutians.
His wife, the former Frances
Zabloudil to whom he was married
Nov. 22, 1941, is living in Abilene. He
is the son of Mrs. H. H Combs.
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Adv.
DOUBLING OF WATER FILTER
PLANT CAPACITY UNDER WAY
was living with her when he en- flown to China and walked back -
listed in April, 1941. The last letter to Burma. He is a road engineer in
from him, dated Dec 21, said he’d the CBI theater.
accounts told of the enraged- Jap-
anese shooting and bayoneting the
unarmed civilians at their mercv.
Explosions and flames swept the
old Intramuros, the Ermita and
Malate districts slong the Manila
bay shore south of the Pasig river
mouth. The devastation, wrought
by demolition charges, threatened
to equal that which ravaged the
Escolta business district north of
the river.
The deemed Japanese, holed
up primarily in the Intramuros,
where some walls are 40 feet
thick at the base, were weak-
ened but still fighting. Japan-
ese artillery fire fell off mark-
edly after American big guns
poured a deadly barrage into
the enemy-held sector Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Troops of Maj. Gen. Robert 8.
Beightler’s 37th division, bearing
the brunt of the house-by-house
onslaught, yesterday reached the
University of the Philippines camp-
us, a half mile from the high com-
missioner's residence on the bay
front.
The Japanese still held the gen-
ersl hospital nearby, however, and
the American positions was unten-
able. The hospital has been con-
verted into one of the enemy's
strongest positions.
Associated Press Correspondent
Fred Hampson said the enemy was
confined to an area about 5.000
yards by 2.000 yards.
"It is not a large area, and Jap-
anese there have taken a terrific
beating, but it still is a dirty house-
to-house fight with American
tanks being called in for point
blank fire in every block,” he
wrote.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in
his communique today that the
37th Infantry, First cavalry and
11th airborne divisions were "grad-
ually compressing the circle on the
trapped enemy garrison.”
(George Thomas Folster of
.. NBC broadcast that men, wom-
en and children had been burn-
ed to death to houses fired by
the Japanese, and killed if they
fled the flames. He said some
civilians had been bayonetted
orhacked to death with sabers
in "this wanton mass mur-
der.”
(CBS Reporter John Adams said
Japanese atrocities in south Ma-
nila "undoubtedly will go down in
history as s darker chapter than
the rape of Nanking." He said
Army photographers documenting
some of the atrocity incidents found,
at one south Manila intersection,
"the bodies of 26 civilians, of which
nine were bables It appeared that
all had been bayoneted, and many
of them with their hands tied be-
hind their backs. It was the same
story in other parts of the city.")
Across Manila Bay on Bataan,
38th division Yanks of Maj Gen.
L. C. Jones captured Abucay in an
11-mile drive down the east coast
of the bitterly - contested jungle
peninsula. Abucay was the eastern
anchor of the first defense line
of the Americans and Filipinos
fighting a valiant delaying battle
in the spring of 1942.
Another American force was
moving down the west coast of
Bataan toward an east-west high-
way which bisects the peninsula
Corregidor fortress, guarding
the entrance to Manila bay,
took another heavy bombing as
Liberators unleaded 1*1 toso on
roartal batteries, already pound-
ed virtually into uselessness.
Fighters sweeping the east coast
of Bataan sank an additional 34
supply barges.
Enemy positions to the Zambales
foothills west of Clark field were
hit by fighters and divebombers in
support of 40th division ground
troops who captured a considerable
store of supplies after inflicting
heavy casualties
Across the central Luzon plain,
patrols of the sixth, 25th and 32d
infantry divisions found quantities
of abandoned equipment, including
four tanks, in the southern Cara-
ballo mountains.
Locomotives and freight cars were
destroyed in effective air sweeps
over Formosa. A reconnaissance
plane shot down an enemy fighter
off the French Ingo-China coast.
4YEARS AGO TODAY
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line can’t move
as much row
material north-
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Malaya as Jop
ships carried.
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Allied planes
and warships
based on Luzon
command the
vital sea-lane
between rich
Malaya, Indies
end Japan.
Possession of Luzon not
only provides bases for
operations against Jap
transport, but gives
jumping off place for
thrust to Asiatic
mainland or amphibious
campaign against
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WHAT CONQUEST OF LUZON GIVES ALLIES-Map
above details some of the immediate strategic advantages Rl-
lied forces will gain over the Japs through recapture of Luzon,
keystone of the Philippine archipelago, following Yank’s
march into Manila.
RAMPARTS 25 FEET HIGH-
Ancient Walled City Final Site
Of Bloody Battling for Manila
By The Associated Press
Feb. 11, 1941 — Italian troops
evacuate Kurmuk in Anglo-Egyp-
tian Sudan, just west of Ethiopian
border Rhodes, Crete and Malta
are raided by German planes in
daily attacks.
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A $166,000 project for doubling been laid from Cottonwood con-
capacity of Abilene’s water filter
plant at Cottonwood and North 2d,
is to be completed by March 15, L.
A. Grimes, city water superintend-
ent, announced today.
The improvements include, in ad-
dition to doubling the filter plant
necting the large line that feeds the
elevated storage at Walnut and 1th
Up to this time, the largest pipe-
line in Abilene has been 20 inches
to carry eight million gallons of
water s dsy; an additional pump
at the pumping station at Ft Phan-
tom Hill lake and a booster pump
northeast of Abilene Christian col-
lege. ’ ___
Pipeline has been increased to
bring 11 million gallons of water
daily, whereas capacity has been
six million.
A 24-inch distribution line has
The city of Abilene is paying 34
percent of the total cost with the
Federal Works agency financing
the remainder.
are San Juan de Letran, Santa Ca-
talina, Santa Rosa, Santa Isabel,
Colegio de Beaterio de la Compania
de Jesus. Colegio de Ninos de la
Iglesia Catedral, and the Cathedral
free school.
Intramuros hospitals include
Saint Paul's and San Juan de Dios
The headquarters of many Cath-
olic religious orders also are inside
the walls.
News Photo Brings
Abilenian News of
Nephew in China
When Mrs Ed Reeves, 220 Mul- 1
berry, saw the picture of her
nephew, Lt G C. Barton, on Page
10 of Wednesday’s Reporter-News
she was greatly excited. It was the
first sight of him she’d had in
many’ months and the first word,
even direct, of him In over two
months.
Mrs Reeves reared the officer
from the time he was two and he
your friend ... the
DEVONSHIRE
ENGLISH DINNERWARE
Just arrived at new shipment of this handsome English
dinnerware in the "Devonshire" patterns—similar, but
not exactly as pictured here. Open stock—you can
buy odd pieces such as covered dishes, tea pots, cream-
ers and sugars and many other pieces as well os the
full sets.
CHINTZ by Vernon is also another new shipment from
California. This pattern is also open stock. It is hand-
painted pottery under the glaze.
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By RAY CRONIN
Chief of the Former Associated
Press Manila Bureau
Intramuros, the ancient Spanish
walled city of Manila, with its nar-
row streets and its teeming popu-
lation, may be the final battlefield
in the bloody fight for the Philip-
pines capital.
Slowly but surely the Japanese
suicide troops left in Manila to
ravage the city are being backed
into the Intramuros.
The famous walled city, its
heavy stone ramparts rising
some 25 feet above the ground
level, dates back to the days
when Spain ruled the Philip-
pines. Spanish remnants were
cornered there in 1898 and it
was within the high wells that
they finally surrendered. Atop
the rampart at the southeast
corner of Intramuros, facing
Manila hotel, is the spot where
the American flag first went
the old fort, with its damp, under-
ground torture chambers, was used
as American Army headquarters
Its Inquisition chambers in those
days were but for sightseers. But
when the Japanese came in they re-
vived use of the dark torture dun-
geons, below the level of the Pasig
river.
The walled city stretches about
eight blocks along Burgos avenue
on the east: about 15 blocks slong
the Pasig river on the north and
the west; and about 10 blocks just
inland from Manila bay on the
souti
In ancient days Intramuros
was surrounded by deep moats.
These were filled in by the
Americans in the early 1900s
and later the ground became a
municipal golf coarse.
The better known of the church-
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NEW PICTURES
up in the metropolis.
Intramuros Is one of the most
thickly populated sections of Man-
ila—populated mainly by Filipinos
and Chinese. Its narrow streets can
be covered crosswise in a healthy
hop, skip and jump, by a good sized
man. The main streets are Calle
Real and Calle Arzobispo. Along
es within Intramuros, nearly all
of them Catholic, are the cathedral
of Manila, the Immaculate Concep-
tion. Our Lady of Lourdes, Ban Au-
gustin. St. Nicholas, Santo Dom-
inga, San Francisco and St. Ignat-
ius.
The leading colleges in the walled
city, most of them Catholic also.
Real and the streets radiating from |
It are scores end ecores of Filipino |
and Chinese shops and restaurants
On Arzobispo is the palace of the
Catholic archbishop of the Manila
diocese.
The walls of Intramuros sre
so thick—10 and 12 feet at some
spots—that grassy plots and
flower garden abounded on top
of them in pre-war days.
Normally there were many sec-
ond-rate hotels in Intramures-
Filipino and Chinese hostels—and
one good American hotel.
Dotted in all parts of the city err
Catholic churches and educational
institutions On the northern side
is Fort Santiago Before the war
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