Evening star., 1942-01-26

LuzOn, according to secret repO
behind the invaders lines.
Reading between the lines OF
Manilas puppet newspapers gives
one a picture of a city in which
normal life is strangled and looting
is widespread; picture of city in
which the invaders are seizing every
thing disable in their work of spread
ing death and destruction.
Three newspapers are known to
be publishing in Manila, including
the Philippine-owned English Ian
guage Tribune: the Tagalog dialect
Taliba. and the new Japanese-owned
English language Sunday News. In
these the news is limited virtually
to Domei Japanese news agency
foreign, news, to edicts of the local
japanese military, and to social
notes.
II Offenses Listed.
The latest issues publish IT
offenses which are punishable by
death. These include:
Rebellion against japanese forces;
Intentionally false guiding of Jap
aneSe forces, warships or TRANSPORTS;
espionage; betrayal of vital military
secrets to the enemy: distribution
of files of information: spreading of
wild rumors of military Importance:
destruction of roads. bridges. public
utilities. military signs. clothing.
provisions or fuel; destruction of
livestock: stealing of arms, am
munition, provisions or clothing:
looting; robbery: murder: arson:
sedition: disturbance of the peace:
pollution of water: killing or in
juring of any japanese soldier or
civilian employe: counterfeiting of
military notes; refusal to accept
them or hindering circulation:
assisting violator of martial law
to escape; refusal to obey any orders
issued by the japanese forces: sug-
gesting or assisting in any Of the
above acts.
Further Internment.
Indicating the further internment
of American and British subjects.
the papers ordered those not yet
interned to report to Santo Tomas
University, where some 5000 Ameri-
can and British men, women and
children are already confined, in
Guiding R. P. Cronin, jr, and Russell
Brines, both of the Associated Press.
The papers directed the victims of
locting to report to the military po-
lice regardless of the nationality of
the offender"
Manila is virtually without auto
mobiles except for military cars and
vehicles permitted newspapers and
other strategic businesses. Residents
have been required to hand over to
the invaders their stocks of gasoline
and lubricating oil.
The papers openly state: Prof
teering is still rampant. We are
paying three times the former
prices The papers added that
prices would be fixed shortly at
slightly higher than the prewar"
level.
Sayre'S Residence Used.
Gen. Masaharu Homma. in COM
mand of the invading force, and his
staff are living at the Manila Hotel
and using the residence of United
States High Commissioner Francis
B. Sayre as headquarters.
1t. Gen. Artemio Ricarte, whom
the japanese plan to use as their
chief figurehead. rides through the
streets in big limousine escorted by
two Japanese motorcycles mounting
tommygunS.
The only currency in circulation
consists of the Philippine peso and
the printed peso which
bears no number or promise to re-
deem. The United States dollar
is temporarily" usable at the rate
of two pesos to the dollar.
Gen. Homma issued proclama- =
ton urging Filipinos to return to
work without fear. -" The jap
anese forces will do everything pos
sible to help the Filipinos create a
new Philippines.
The papers report that Filipino
Catholics. headed by Archbishop
Michael ODeherty, conferred with
the japanese Army religious sec
ton and agreed to cooperate in
establishing world peace"
Pearl Harbor Pictures.
The Sunday News printed alleged
first pictures of the Pearl Harbor
bombing which started the war De-
cember, showing direct hits on two
battleships, and Hickam Field
aflame. The pictures apparently
were taken over Pearl Harbor, but
obviously were retouched.
Meanwhile, Filipinos organized in
to a secret police for freedom, u
have begun broadcasting from a
hidden radio station somewhere in
the Philippines, urging continued
resistance to the invaders, and re-
minding listeners that the United
States has pledged that help would
be swiftly forthcoming.
The Tvoice of freedom" is coun-
teracting the puppet radio at Ma
Mia, over which Domei dispatches
are read in English, Spanish, Tag
alog and japanese, and transcript
tions are played purporting to be
pleas by captured American and
Filipino officers to those still re-
sisting the invaders to discontinue
the useless struggle"