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By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — The Allies
in Europe are fighting the tenth
round and a knockout may come
any day now. That theater has
the spotlight. But talk to any
Navy officials here and they will
tell you that some of the kleigs
should be on the vital ninth round
in the Pacific.
It’s the battle of the Philip
* pines. The opening punches are
being thrown by the Army and
Navy Air forces now. It’s con
sidered as certain as tomorrow’s
dawn that landings of ground
forces will follow. But there’s no
use to try to guess D-day for the
Philippines any more than there
was to try to guess the time of
the second front in Europe.
With one exception (if Russia
enters the war against Japan) the
recapture of the Philippines will
be a more overwhelming blow
against the Japanese than any
thing else the Allies can deliver.
The Japanese know this and
are expected to fight harder
against landings in the Philip
pines than against any of the
landings made so far in the en
tire Pacific area.
Their stakes are all the vital
resources in their captured is
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lands between the Philippines and
the Dutch East Indies, as well as
those from French/ Indo-China to
Burma on the continent.
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Take a look at your map and
you’ll understand why. Only a
superior naval force could main
tain supplies from Japan south
of Formosa if the Allies hold the
Philippines. The South China sea,
which now is Japan’s open door
to supplies of rubber, rice, iron,
hemp, tin, cotton, tungsten, and
other vital war materials, can be
blockaded almost as effectively
as the English channel.
Not only would these materials
be cut off, but also supplies to
the Nipponese armies to the
south. •
* * *
The strategic value of the Phil
ippines, according to nearly all
naval experts here, is the big
key to the war in the Pacific—
far more important than the
bombing of Japap proper or any
progress thaf can be made against
the enemy on the mainland of
China.
Best information available here
is that the Japanese have about
200,000 ground troops in the
Philippines, may add more in
days to come, and might be
willing to risk their entire im
perial navy in a Pacific slugfest
to defend the islands.
GI ROOSTER
CROWS WAY
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PISO. GI BUGLER
. . . He Blew Too Early.
“Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in
the Morning,” the secret ambi
tion of every soldier—to kill the
bugler—was fulfilled vicariously
here at the expense of a rooster
which used to wake enlisted men
on a post of the Panama Coast
Artillery Command.
For months “Piso” had lived
precariously, arousing his owner
where buglers, bed spilling and
excited topkicks had failed.
Then his crowing ushered in a
day of K-rations and the shadow
of the axman fell across his
path.
“Piso’s” qualities as a clarion
were ignored K-Day turned into
D-Day. He was roasted in the
training center bake shop.
“Not that we minded getting
up at 5:30 every morning,” one
GI explains." "That was swell,
and we appreciated his crowing.
But it wasn’t enough for "Piso”
to sound off at reveille. He’d
tune up every day at 4 a. m. He
would have been a perfect alarm
clock if we could have regulated
him.”
"Piso” was bought by Cpl.
Augusta Rexach, of Puerto Rico,
at a Panama City poultry market
as a last resort when local mer
chants were fresh out of alarm
clocks.
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may be expelled by a two-third*
vote, but cannot be impeached
except by their own state govern
ments.
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