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 TeFsuchi dccioed that the battle alls.t be fought in the difficult teETaln ol ;he Levto mountains and rice paddles. He relieved Kugoda as commander of the 18th Area Army and replaced him with Gen eral Tomoyoki Yamashita. who had conquered Singapore m 1922 auc then moved 10 the Philippines 10 wind up the campaign after L; Gen. Masaharu Homma had been unable the budce the Ameri- can forces holding out on Bataan. Yamashita was one Of Japan'S best known generals. For his victories in Singapore and Bataan he had been given the First Area Army in Manchuria, one of the two top field commands in the Kwantng Army.
 To General MaKina. commander of the 18th Division. then fighting q delaying action against the U. $. Sixth Army under General Krue- ger. Yamishita relayed this mes sage:
 The Army has received the fol- lowing order from his Majesty,
 Enemy ground forces will be the Emperor:
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 General MacArthur'S advance continued. After securing the hign ground overlooking Leyte Gulf, Mai Gen. J. R. Hodges XXIV Corps penetrated inland to secure Dagami and Burauen. The X Corps under Maj. Gen. F. c. Sibert. swept across the San Juan ico Strait to seize the south coast of Samar and landed troops in & short amphibious operation on the north coast of Leyte.
 Storms Increase Difficulties
 By 5 November the American forces had reached the vicinity of Lilnon at the northern end of the valley road leading to Ormoc, the principal Japanese installation or the island. Bitter fighting for Leyte was now in progress, rendered tGe more difficult by typhoons which inaugurated the rainy season.
 During the naval battle and the weeks following, the Japanese were able to transport endorsements :o Leyte. but by mid-December Gen. Kenney's land-based fighters and Admiral Halsey's carrier planes had, strangled this stream of reinforce mentS. On l November United States air patrols located four large transports unloading, escorted by four destroyers and two destroyer escorts.
 Army planes struck and sank one, possibly two transports. On 3 November, another three trans ports were seen unloading at Or moc but the Japanese maintained sufficient air patrol overhead and continued striking the United States field on the cast coast so that their unloading operations