The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
Most Deadly 5th Column in y. S.
is Lead by Few Filipino I Traitors
WASHINGTON. Feb. q
NEA Service Military Writer

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Our most dangerous Fifth Col
umnists today are neither Ger
mans. Italians nor Japanese.
They are the small, venomous
proportion of anti-American
Cubans, Puerto Ricans and es-
pecially Filipinos in this country.
Doubly dangerous because
unsupported, they are stealthily
undermining our war effort by
espionage in our armed forces
and sabotage in our factories
and all on behalf of Japan.
These sinister activities are
directed by one of the Orients
most dangerous terroristic move
ments which, unsupported, has
come to America from the
Philippines. There, as the
"Sakdalistas," they have agitated
against American influence and
against Commonwealth Pres
ident Manuel Quezon and all
other Filipino leaders, favoring
a sort of anarcho-communism.
They have caused riots and
bloodshed. Recently their lead
err, Benigno Ramos, after exile in
Japan, has used japanese mon
ey, but he has confined it to the
lower classes of Manila.
MUTTERINGS BY
THE GANG"
But more lately, on the Pa
cific Coast. in a few large mid
western cities, and in several
parts of greater New York, a
few Filipinos, mostly of unsavory
repute, have been muttering to
any who would listen that the
United States can't defend the
Philippines and they had bet
ter join Japan's New Order for
Greater East Asia. Such talk is
always traced back to THE
Gang
Nov, THE Gang is dis
closed as an American branch
of the "Ganap," new name for
the Sakdalistas, which hides a
new, more aggressive policy.
With Japanese money, these
renegade Filipinos have mobil-
lied themselves as a secret army
for the defeat of Democracy and
white influence in Asia. The
main body helped Japan's in
vasion of Luzon. General Mac
Arthur caught two score of its
leaders and now holds them in
the bowels Of Corregidor. But
the advance guard, undetected,
has only lately infiltrated into
this country.
Today THE Gang has nearly
5000 members in continental
United States and the number
is growing. Already they are
helping Japan by supplying in
formation about movements of
American troops and ships.
They are trying TO recruit
some of the Filipinos with whom
the Navy lately replaced its
Japanese cooks and mcssboys.
They have their spies among
the many Filipinos volunteering
to fight the Japanese, and to
work in munitions factories.
There they arc trying not only
to sabotage or slow production,
but also TO steal weapons for
The Gang all Of whom are to
be armed.
The new Fifth Column tries
to recruit for its furtive ranks
not only more Filipinos. but any
and all possible men of Spanish
blood, including Franco Span
iards. Puerto Rican Nationalist,
Mexicans, Cubans. To ( i & h I
Anglo-Saxon Liberalism, they
plan TO send spies TO both the
American and British West In
dies, and there, here, every
where, try TO arouse the horrid
spectre of race hatred
Already they are trying TO
inflame American N g groe s
against the whites. AS catspaws
of the japanese, The Gang" is
reviving that German hope Of
1917 which led to the capture of
the notorious spy Pablo Waber-
ski, while trying to stir up mutt
ny among colored troops. The
plot failed dismally then, and
would fail now, when the morale
of the Negro troops is officially
rated second TO none.
CONCEALED
KNIFE-THRUSTS
They are clever al conccaling