There was a notice on the board this afternoon saying that all missionaries are to be packed up by ten a.m. tomorrow ready to be moved to a new concentration camp! Well, we do not like that. We are settled here and would like to stay. But orders are orders! Some say we are going to a place about two blocks away in order to make more room here in the main camp. One missionary said he thought it was an attempt to get all religious influence out of the camp before the “Screws” are applied. I doubt that. Anyway, we went to sleep wondering what the next day would bring forth.
Herman K. Beaber
(1907 -- 2001) American Protestant missionary; interned at Santo Tomas and Los Baños.
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