TROOPS BROUGHT UP
JAPANESE MOVEMENTS
(Rec. noon.) RUGBY, Feb. 17. Enemy activity on Batan Peninsula in the Philippines is again increasing. A Washington communique, recording this, says that heavy artillery fire from Cavite shore has bombarded the harbour fortifications with increasing ' intensity during most of the day. The damage to U.S. installations and casualties were not great. In Batan the enemy is bringing up reinforcements and there has been increased artillery fire all along the front. Enemy air activity is increasing.
For several days enemy .aeroplanes have been dropping poorly-printed leaflets on refugee camps behind the American lines. These pamphlets, written in English, Spanish, ahd Tagalog, have professed great friendship for. Filipinos and exhorted them to co-operate with the invaders and join the Greater Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.
Yesterday bombs were substituted for pamphlets. These fell on a refugee camp at the defenceless village of Cabcaben. Eighteen women and five children were killed in this attack, and 13 -wromen and nine children wpre wounded. There is nothing to repbrt from other' areas.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1942, Page 5
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