The Japanese will alter radio sets outside Manila too: "With the approval of the Director General of the Japanese Military Administration, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission has promulgated Executive Order No. 166." [You can be sure it's by order of the Japanese Military Administration!] "The order has no other motive than to protect our people from unnecessary anxiety and uneasiness due to hostile and misleading propaganda," says the Director General of Local Government, whoever he is. They'll have a hard time finding any radios in the provinces, let alone any more in Manila.

Besides the shootings, we've had plenty of robberies too in Manila. The same gang that robbed the Perez-Rubios' hit the Aranetas' house. From the latter's palatial home, they only made out with P15 much to their disgust, but from the former they took a couple of thousand pesos, a wristwatch, some jewelry and a ring from the daughter, which they returned when she started to cry. They almost returned P200 for spare cash too. In perfect Spanish, one gang member told one of the sons: "We used to know each other, but you never look my way when we meet."

Robbers failed to penetrate José Vidal's fortress of a house, but scored with Judge Locsin, one Japanese near us in Brixton Hill, and American Red Cross representative, Foster. They took P200 from the latter and asked him to call down Walzer from the apartment above. Walzer stayed put after Foster clued him in somehow. When Mrs. Walzer started yelling for help from a window, the robbers sauntered away — casually.