The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-24
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Mia. She also talked of her
hopes of again making her home.
after hostilities cease, in a re-
constructed Manila.
Near her bedside lay the four
campaign ribbons, including the
Asiatic-Pacific service award.
presented to her by General
MacArthurs staff in recognition
of her service to the American
cause. Her work, in conjunction
with her husband, in maintain
ing morale and helping the at
flicted at the Santo Tomas
camp was warmly praised by
internees and army officials
alike.
MARYGROVE GRADUATE
Age % at the time of her
death, Margaret Mary Bruel
was a native of Mount Clemens.
After graduation from St. Mary's
High School, she attended Mary
grove College, Detroit, receiving
a degree in journalism.
During her school days she
was one of the most popular
members of the younger set in
Mount Clemens: active in school
and church work, and for brief
periods worked for the former
Daily Leader and the Mount
Clemens Monitor in pursuance
Of her journalistic studies.
After graduation in June,
1887, she accepted the invita-
ton of a fellow STUDENT girl
whose home was in Manila, to
accompany her home across the
Pacific for vacation. While in
Manila, Peggy" worked for the
Manila Tribune, extended her
visit because of her love for the
picturesque Philippines, and
later was married to Boguslav,
editor Of the paper.
Life for the Boguslavs in the
pre-war days was interesting
and blissful - an extreme con-
trast to the inhumanities they
suffered together at Santo Tom
as. They were guests at all the
brilliant diplomatic functions
and Peggy" a faithful cores
pendent to her parents, often
described in word and with pic
ture the gay social affairs of
the Philippines capital.
OMNIBUS SILENCE
On Jan. 2. 1912, the Bruels
received their last word from
Peggy" She and her husband
were trapped by the advancing
Nipponese growing more savage
and blood-thirsty after their
pillage of Hong Kong.
The next message received
by the Bruels was that joyous
Safe and Well - Peggy; a
cablegram received Feb. 6 tell
ing Of the Boguslav's liberation
from Santo Tomas on the night
of Saturday, Feb. 3.
MacArthur's mechanical cav
airy, pushing swiftly through
Jap lines on the north side of
Manila, had liberated the camps
5000 emaciated internees be-
fore they could be moved or
massacred by the retreating en-
envy.
The interval between the two
vital messages is void for the
Bruels filled only by Ray Cron-
in, Associated Press cores
pendent, who was repatriated on
the Gripsholm in December,
1943.
UPHELD MORALE
He told the Bruels of the
heroic work being done by
Dave and Peggy" among the
internees the most important
part of which, strangely, was
the organizing of bridge tourna-
ments for adults and games for
children, to maintain morale
despite deliberate Japanese
cruelties Margaret Mary kept
active in such pursuits despite
decentralization, and doctors
state emphatically that the
heart disease she became afflict-
ed with was brought on by her
tireless spirit in a wasting body.
Later, Boguslav paid tribute
to his wife's work among the
internees, and her cooperation
with other women in doing
everything possible to trans
form deteriorated rice, stale
fish and rotting vegetables into
as tempting diet as possible.
In reference to the diet, and
in anticipation Of the effect it
would have on the internees,
the camp medical chief, DR..
Stevenson told army authorities
after iiberation:
DELIBERATE STARVATION
1T was a deliberate program
of malnutrition. The Japs had
food in plenty. They even un-
loaded food and deliberately