Tribune: "Guerrillas urged to heed President's offer of amnesty." Two will tour the provinces to contact "misguided bands."

"Army air units destroy 84 foe planes" — after ten days of bombing our airbases in "Hengyang, Lingling, Wuchow and Shaokwan."

Maharajah is back on duty. He was in Japan so he's probably Icasiano or Bautista. He says, "coffee costs 10 sen," and a meal in an ordinary restaurant, "not more than a yen (one peso)." He forgot to add that "points" are required.

Now it's forbidden to bring palay^† and corn into the city. The price of palay was raised to P8 a sack — still too little and too late as the planting is over. La Vanguardia says fruits and vegetables are next on the regulators' list. They'll only become harder to get.

A reliable source gave me this math quiz: A man was about to sell a machinery part for P200 when his relative told him he could get a better price from a friend with Japanese contacts. The friend promised him P400, and offered the part to a Japanese purchasing agent for P800. "OK," said the agent, "you make invoice for P1,400 and we split the difference equally — 300 each." Quickly now, how much more than the seller did the friend make?

The coconut ration is set as one per family for 6 centavos. A friend who saw them said they were the smallest he'd ever seen — and one in four were rotten. As the official district retailer, he's afraid the families will refuse to buy them and leave him out of pocket, so he's going to force each family to take them. That's the first time I've heard of a war ration that people are forced to buy.

^† Unhusked rice.