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...Korean peninsula, thrusting down into the Yellow Sea to within 100 miles of Japan, is more than a Japanese problem. It is a Japanese obsession. With an older culture than the Japanese (whom they helped civilize), Koreans are traditionally pastoral, home-loving. Since 1910 Japan's policy has been a queer combination of savage repression and grotesque attempts to mollify the people...
Inch by inch, with the glacierlike superiority of sheer mass, the Jap forced his way south on Bataan Peninsula. Before him the last big core of resistance in Luzon stood like a granite cliff of valor. The edges of the glacier crumbled, but mass enough to move mountains seemed to be behind...
...this juncture MacArthur chose to act on the opposite side of the peninsula. He concentrated his 155-mm. artillery on his mountainous right flank, slaughtering the massed Japs by hundreds, made an oldfashioned, cold-steel bayonet attack which sent the shattered Japs reeling back abandoning much equipment. The pressure on MacArthur's left promptly relaxed. On his 62nd birthday this week Douglas MacArthur was still chipper, still bucking up, his men by visits to his fronts. He said: "The enemy may hold the bottle, but I hold the cork...
Like Hong Kong and Manila before it, Singapore awaited its fate. Its tree-covered oval island, 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, is separated from the giraffe-like neck of the Malay Peninsula and the oncoming Jap by the mile-wide Strait of Johore. Around the big island on the sea side are scores of tiny islands, on most of which lie camouflaged coastal artillery positions...
...attack and siege by land, Singapore is not so well prepared. Most of its big guns are concentrated on the seaward side, not opposite the Malay Peninsula. Its main reservoir of water is across the Strait in Johore and although there are emergency reservoirs on the island itself, the Jap might be able to thirst out the city's 600,000 inhabitants. This week the enemy was within 40 miles of the main water supply...