Tribune: "Live for Republic — Laurel.... President exhorts people at rally to be patriotic."

Live apart from partisan struggle, live peacefully, cultivate the soil, plant your foodstuffs, sweat in labor and stretch your muscles in productive enterprise. Thus only may you hope to survive, to live from day to day.

So we are just a bunch of farmers then: "utterly powerless to choose between the Japanese and the Americans in this world-wide conflict." The guerrillas have chosen otherwise.

Laurel revealed that on the proclamation of Amnesty Week, the Japanese promised to withdraw their armed forces into military reservations if Laurel could maintain public order. "But," he lamented, "you know what happened. How could I ... [fulfill] the Commander's promise if ... even here in Manila there are still shootings."

At midnight of that very same night, we had a biggest running gun battle at the Municipal Sanctuarium in San Juan. The noise could be heard on our street for over an hour.

Page 10 of the Tribune is full of instructions and diagrams for building air raid shelters. A sampling:

Preparing for the Inevitable