Tribune: "Nippon Flyers Raid Calcutta." They down 12 Spitfires and Hurricanes, hit a transport and bomb trucks in Buthidaung and Maungdaw without losing a single plane. "Nippon forces pressing drive" — in Burma. The articles are three and four days out of date so they can't be having much success.

"His Majesty honors three Navy Officers" — posthumously: Adm. Keiji Shibazaki, commander of the Japanese garrison in the Gilberts, who once said that a million men couldn't take Tarawa in a hundred years; Captain Yasuo Sato; and Col. Yoshitatsu Yasuda. I expect we'll hear more of these posthumous decorations for the Marshalls, Carolines and Wake.

E.M.: "We often hear the expression 'Pooh, that's propaganda!' Yet propaganda," he says, "is absolutely necessary. Without proper propaganda ... we would be lost in a world of realities." Well, it's Japanese propaganda that's getting lost in a world of realities.

Primco has changed its mind again. Now it wants the textile stores to submit an inventory list plus samples of the goods so it can choose the best — for the Japanese. Biba tripled the price of rationed rice to P1.20 a kilo — 10-times prewar but still a quarter of the black market price.