GUERRILLAS STRIKE
Rec. 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. The United Press correspondent in eastern Sarnar says that barefooted, straw-hatted Filipinos, in the first all-, guerrilla operation since General MacArthur's return, drove back superior '• Japanese forces anc occupied the important town of Taft, midway on the eastern coast of Samar, after a twoday fight. The Japanese did not burn Taft, ■ as they have done so many other towns, and the patriots found sufficient unmilled rice to feed them for .several days.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 5
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