Guerrilla Bands, Still Intact,
_ May Aid U. S. In Philippines
By RAY CRONIN
(Chief of the Former Associated
Press Philippines Bureau)
When the saga of guerrilla
warfare against the Japanese in
the Philippines is written after
the war, hundreds of names of
heroic Americans and Filipinos
must be inscribed on the roll of
those who faced death constant
ly as they battled against the in
vaders.
During the years the enemy has
been in control of America’s pre
a war western Pacific outpost, by
his own admission he has not
been able to stamp out the guer
rillas who have made Japanese
life there a thing of uncertainty.
For reasons of security there
are many things about the guer
rillas that cannot be told at this
time. Yet we know they have
been effective and that they have
clung to certain areas in spite of
^ desperate Japanese efforts.
Some of the guerrilla bands
are made up of American soldiers
and sailors and their Filipino
followers. Others are purely Fili
pino. Still others, led by Filipi
nos, contain American service
men and civilians. At least one
band was led by an American
old-timer, a former army offi
cer.
The guerrillas have been so
successful in some sectors that
the Japanese dare not use certain
^highways. In others they have
disrupted railroad traffic, sabo
taged shipping and killed off
Japanese outposts.
They worked right in the
Manila area killing off Japanese
and suspected Quislings. They
sabotaged telephone and other
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lines of communication.
The work of the guerrillas
was not confined totally to kill
ings and destruction. At least one
band employed radio propaganda
to sabotage Japanese efforts to
gain complete control of the is
lands.
For instance there was Juan de
la Cruz, young Filipino whose ra
dio activities had the Japanese
furious during the 21 months I
spent in a Manila prison camp
after Pearl Harbor. Juan de la
Cruz is the Filipino equivalent of
the American John Doe.
Juan and his band got hold of
a portable transmission set and
took it upon themselves to replace
the Corregidor “Voice of Free
dom” station after the island fell
to the Japanese. Juan operated
in the Manila area, moving fast
and often. He opened his pro
grams with an American military
song and closed with “The Star
Spangled Banner.”
Juan most likely never heard
of a Mississippi River pilot of the
old days. Yet his language was
on a par with, and at times even
exceeded, the wildest vocal
flights of the river bosses. He
cursed the Japanese, from the
( mightiest to the lowest, and their
I Quislings, in English, Spanish and
' his own Tagalog. He warned the
Quislings that they would be ta
; ken care of when American
forces returned to the islands.
|
, He named some who later were
killed or wounded by guerrillas,
j He gave away Japanese military
secrets.
Personally, I am convinced that
our forces re-entering the Philip
pines will find well-trained guer
rilla bands as well as the Fili
pino people generally welcoming
them and fighting with them
against the Japanese.
STRANGE TIDES OF WAR
LONDON —CAP)— In Nor
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