Cavite "got it" twice; Iloilo City was bombed for the first time yesterday. American civilians are now coming down from Baguio City via the mountains, probably just in the nick of time too. Quezon inverted the Philippine flag to denote war status — a long-standing tradition that puts red over blue. “Victory will be ours,” he said. But in the meantime, here’s 20-million pesos to build air-raid shelters.

Friday’s war news isn’t favorable with the Japanese pressing Malaya and Singapore. They’ll take Hongkong, Indochina, Thailand, the Philippines and possibly Malaya. After that, the Netherlands East Indies [NEI] will fall like a ripe plum and the war will be lengthened no end.

Civlians flee Cavite