Our neighbor the factory owner was down in the mouth today. His downtown office was burned down in the last raid. Three caretakers were supposed to be on the premises that day, which was Sunday, but on Saturday night all three had decided to go home and spend the night with their respective wives. The snowstorm and the early alarm prevented them from returning to their posts the next morning so that when the fire-bombs fell there was no one around to put but the conflagration. The men are now facing investigation, trial, and punishment. He said that one of his factories had also been raided. Many schoolgirls on voluntary labor service were killed by strafing carrier-borne planes because they had refused to take shelter to show their patriotic spirit.
Leon Ma. Guerrero
(March 24, 1915 — June 24, 1982). Lawyer, journalist and diplomat. Served in USAFFE (later, USFIP) in the press relations staff, then assigned to Corregidor; upon surrender of USFIP and release from internment, served as a technical assistant to Jorge B. Vargas in the Philippine Executive Commission, then resumed broadcasting (station PIAM) under the same pseudonym he had used prior to the Japanese Occupation: Ignacio Javier. He then joined the diplomatic service of the Second Republic of the Philippines, assigned to the Philippine embassy in Tokyo under Jorge B. Vargas, ambassador.
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