The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-19


 bat enemy parachute troops has been organized in 23 towns In Ba- tanRas province, according to 0 dis- hatch to the Manila Bulletin from Batangas, south of Manila.
 The legion is composed Of volun- teer guards and residents possessing firearms and is under direction of police ofilcials. Batangas Is an hn- portant railroad and port city.
 Given a tremendous boost by re- ceipt of Sl0,000,000 from President Roosevelt's emergency fund, many air raid shelters are to be built at once. President Manuel Guezofl cabled the nations thanks to MT, Roosevelt.
 In view of the shipping shortage. fear was expressed that stocks Of American cigarets would soon De ex- hauSted. The governments national tobacco corporation has offered its services for improvement of locally made aromatic eigarets.
 No Report on Damage
 An army communique, announcing the raid on Cavlte, eight miles from Manila, at noon, gave no report Of damage or casualties.
 Manila had an air raid alarm pee riod Of 20 minutes ending at i;0l p m,, a brief alert ct i:30 and an alarm period of 30 minutes ending at 2:l7. The only planes seen from the United Press observation tower were nine Japanese craft which crossed Manila bay and disappeared toward the north during the second alarm. The army said that only a small number of Japanese planes were in- volved in yesterdays raid on Tarlac and that they attacked military ob- jectiVes.
 All reports indicated that the United states and Philippines forces now united held firm against the Japanese at the three invasion cen- ters in Luzon Island.
 Lieut.. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commanding the combined forces, announced today that the death penalty would be imposed on per- sons who entered closed Japanese establishments or who took anything from them without permission. No- tiCes were posted at Japanese estab- lishnents in Manila, now under mil- ilary guard, and warned that Vio- lators would be tried by courts mar tial.
 GOsslpers Are Busy
 Manila gosSiperS speculatcd today on the possibility that on "earth- cuake" in Forme8a, big Japanese air Nnd naval base north of tho Philip pines, reported by the Japanese, might mean that there he'd been m carth. shaking American air raid on the island, and that the easu- altiCS might have been largely in planes.
 Experts here have believed that most Of the Japanese bombing planes which have attacked the phil- ippInes have come from Formesa There has been c slackening Of raids the past few days,
 I.lOllO Hit % Minutes
 More than 90 Japanese planes bombed tleilo for 90 minutes yester- day, starting ct i:30 D. iIl., the army reported. Their bombs set fire to several large business establish fneftB and caused an undetermined number of civilian casualties. 1t was indicated that the Japanese cor- centrated on military objectiVes, however, and reports said nearly all their bombs hit near Fort San Pc. dro. the harbor and the air port A hangar of the Philippines Air Lines was destroyed by fire.
 Beautiful Old 1loilo Is situated on PAnay Island, for which was named the United States gunbeat Panay, sunk by Japanese planes iil one of their so-sorry- please raids in the Yangtze river, incident to their way on China).
 GA navy communique Issued at Washington yesterday said United states submarines, in their first announced victories in Far Eastern waters, had sunk q Japanese tranS- port and probably sunk a destroyer.
 (An army communlque Issued at Washington said Japanese air ac- tivity yesterday was confined to "mIld" raiding on Luzon Island and that the only ground operations were unimportant patrol actions)
 Army headquarters said today that there had been no enemy acc tvity during the forenoon,
 President Manuel l.. Quezon, in excellent health and spirits, visited General MacAFthur, the communi- que said, to repay visit MacArthur paid him yesterday. Quezon also greeted members of MacArthurs staff.
 Philippines Inaucted
 It was announced also that Gen. eral Basllo Valdes, chief of staff of the Philippines army, and his entire staff, were inducted into the service of the United States forces in the Far East today under the arrange ment by which all United States and Philippines forces were co-or- dinated under MacArthur. Colonel Richard J. Marshall, of Virginia, was the inducting officer.
 Manila had daylight raid alarms of 29 minutes, ending at 1:0i ?. m. today and 36 minutes, ending at 2;l7.
 However, all reports indicated at least 6 temporary slackening of the force of enemy raids, and 1t was said also that the raids were gen. orally of hit-or -miss nature rather than sustained.
 Refugees In Manila
 Manila, Dec. l9 - (UP) - Refu- gees, streaming into Manila today, disclosed that hundreds of Filipino civilians, armed only with bolo knives or sharpened bamboo poles, had charged into Japanese rifle and machine gun fire beside United States and Philippines troops to hold or the invaders in southern Luzon.
 Using such weapons as they had in their homes and fields, witnesses eo{d kha EHitipivoAe fo,,ohk f,,y.foa,c1xy