Tribune: "Government will curb rice price" — mere wishful thinking — it's now P600 a sack and dragging all other prices up.

"Two Chungking positions occupied" — the Japanese squeeze through the HuLa'O Pass and the enemy flees. "U.S. Jittery over Chungking plight."

Splashes: "In order to grasp the realities surrounding us, we must know what [is] happening and what [is] failing to happen." We won't find out by listening to Daihon-ei.

There's no bitterer man in Manila than Keller (not the Swiss fixer). When he gets on his high horse he scares us with his remarks and threats; at other times he puts us into stitches of laughter. He needs little to get started, then he bangs his fist on the table and starts a merciless tirade. "This bloody goddamned government is USELESS! You know what will happen? Rice riots ... they're on the way." [BANG!] "You can't STARVE a people! Remember that, all of you," he glowers, shaking his finger violently under our noses. "There'll be a bloody day of reckoning."

He'll take the bait on any topic too: "I will not do forced labor," he roars, pounding the table. "I will tell the government to give me my six months' ration of sugar and lard, and then, but only then, will I consider it." [BANG!] "I will not clean sewers or cellars or whatever you might call 'em. That is the government's job. That is what we pay our taxes for."