Japanese soldiers are seen wading
ashore from barges in Leyte
"in the face of enemy fire"

Radio Tokyo said the Americans landed two more divisions to reinforce their five at Leyte. The Japanese have been reinforcing too.

Tribune: "New Rice Body Organized" to stabilize supply. We've had Naric, Primco, Biba, Nadisco, and now RICOA. "Army offers all assistance to new Rice Control Body." Nothing will change because there is no transportation.

The Editorial is about the protective clauses of Laurel's Executive Order No.100 on Compulsory Labor: reasonable compensation, group insurance....

Rendered any more attractive, these would be peacetime terms whose excessive solicitude for the welfare of the factory hands may rob service of its finer and deeper meaning and convert so patriotic an endeavor into an ordinary industrial bargaining.

Truckloads of mangled Japanese corpses from the Boulevard passed through Dakota — "a nauseating sight," I'm told; many retched. The Cuartel de España is gone — wiped out by numerous American bombs then mopped up by machine guns. It was unexpected because it had never been attacked before. Members of the Japanese garrison stationed there, including some wounded, were seen jumping out of windows and patios in a mad scramble to escape.

The pilot of an F6F Hellcat streaked up and down the Boulevard four times as if trying to set a speed record. Unable to hit him, antiaircraft batteries eventually gave up. To crown his performance, the pilot strafed Nichols from a height of about 500 feet.

A dive-bomber on its way down got a direct hit and had its tail blown off. It looked like sure death for the two aboard, and yet in the twinkling of an eye, a parachute opened. The survivor swam ashore into the hands of Japanese armed with bayonets.