CITY WIPED OUT
JAPANESE REPRISAL guerrillaTactivities PHILIPPINES TRAGEDY (10.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 30. Lieut.-Colonel Carlos Romulo, aide-de-camp to General MacArthur. supreme commander in the SouthWest Pacific, who has arrived from Australia, revealed that the Japanese had wiped out the city of Cebu in the Philippines on May 22 as a reprisal for guerrilla activities by Cebu citizens. , The Japanese then broadcast to all the Philippines, citing their action at Cebu as a warning against fuithei guerrilla activity. Colonel Romulo said that even women m Cebu we it. sniping at the Japanese, Who wen unable to prevent sniping. He expressed the opinion that the burning of the city will not prevent it either Colonel Romulo is here on a seciet mission for General MacArthur.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20824, 1 July 1942, Page 3
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