Sison tells governors to keep peace order

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Language

English

Year

1944

Subject

Sison, Teofilo L., 1880 – 1975.

Martial law.

Peace – Philippines.

Military governors – Philippines.

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___ a L±£2od jRqjublu UNrvrr—y or ^L.r. library'' 4U£ 1 5 1380 20 Centavos YEAR I MANILA, PHILIPPINES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1944 No. 5 Outstanding Youths From All Provinces And Cities To Be Selected For Rewards In Scholarships, Cash, Osias Announces New Highest Commanders In P. I. Named Gen. Yamasita, Admiral Okoti Entrusted with Islands’ Defense TOKYO, Nov. 8 (Domei)—Gen eral Tomoyuki Yamasita, highest commander of the Japanese army forces in the Philippines, was born in Koti prefecture on Sikoku island. After graduating from the Military Academy in 1906, General Yama sita completed the prescribed course at the Military Staff College. The General began his career as a member of the General Staff and later served abroad as a resident officer in Switzerland, Germany and Austria as well as Hungary. Returning to Japan, General Ya masita served many important posts including such assignments as member of the War Ministry’s Military Affairs Bureau, instructor at the Military Academy and com mander of an artillery regiment. He was then successively appointed director of the War Ministry’s Mi litary Affairs Bureau and brigade commander. General Yamasita took active part in the China Affairs from 1937 to 1939 by serving alternately as unit commander. and Chief of Staff of the Japanese army in China. He also commanded an army corps in Manchoukuo and be came Inspector-General of Military Aviation and concurrently of the Army Aviation Headquarters in 1939. In the following year, 1940, the General went to Germany on a tour of inspection. In 1941, he be came a member of the Supreme War Council and with the outbreak of the war of Greater East Asia, was appointed Supreme Comman der of the Japanese forces in Malai. In that capacity, General Ya masita conducted a brilliant blitzkreig down the Malai peninsula which culminated in the utter de feat of the British forces at Sin gapore. He continued to hold an import(Continued on page 3) This Rice Story Can Give You, Too, Much Painful Headache A government hospital was run ning very short of rice and its authorities were frantic for relief. A few days more and patients, not to mention doctors and nurses, would actually have nothing to eat. Even then they were subsisting on the barest nourishment. SOS signals were sent, rather were taken personally by the hos pital head and no answer, no help was forthcoming. In despair, he related his tragic story to a friend and this friend sympathized. He will provide 100 sacks at no more than the government price and would transport it himself to Ma nila free. What a heavenly blessing! And all this kind friend asked of the hospital head was a pass for that rice to keep it safe from confiscation on the way and for his charcoal-fed truck so it could bring the rice .and safely go back to its owner. Just that and no more. That seemed a very simple matter for the hospital head and .he himself. weni_around_ to secure the necessary passes. The pro mises of quick action he received were hearty and florid.. But that was one week ago and still there are no passes and the government hospital patients may yet actually go without rice soon, maybe this week, inaybe be tomorrow. Just now this unhappy hospital head says he is nursing a heavy and painful headache. Gov't To Undertake Project With Half-Million Donation Promotion Of National Spirit And Virtuous Living, Rizal-like, Js Chief Aim Of New KAPARIZ Program With a view to promoting youth development according to the new standards set by the Republic and to encouraging youthful initiative, ingenuity and endeavor with substantial rewards and scholarships, Minister of Education Camilo Osias, National Chairman of the KAPARIZ, has proposed and President Laurel has approved a Youth Promotion Pro gram to be financed with the 1*500,000 donation of Ambassa dor Syozo Murata. The recommendation of Minister Osias just approved provides for a vast national project that aims at the “cultivation of the national spirit and the development of ex emplary youth—Filipinos intense in nationalism and steeped in vir tue” along the pattern of Rizal’s life. What will probably arouse immediate widespread response, however, is that phase of the pro gram which seeks to organize all the youth of the country into a competition zfor the selection of the outstanding' noys and giris in every province or city, each with a reward of 1*1,000 as well as for the selection of one deserving boy and one deserving girl from each city or province for a four-year free scholarship in any institution in Manila. Other phases of this vast youth program is the rewarding of agri cultural, handicraft and other vo cational activities to be sponsored by the KAPARIZ, with Pl,000 available for eviery province or city and the development of lite rary, musical and artistic achieve ments. Dr. Osias emphasized in his re commendations that in the award ing of scholarships to the out standing Kapariz girls and boys, the basis shall not be merely aca demic, nor the scholarships limited to intellectual pursuits. Any de(Continued on page 3) PATENT OFFICE NOW FULLY ORGANIZED SISON TELLS GOVERNORS TO KEEP PEACE, ORDER In his capacity as Chief Delegate of the President and Inspector-Gen eral of Martial Law, Minister of Home Affairs Teofilo Sison has sent telegrams to all governors of the various military districts in forming them of their duty under the proclamation of martial law to “suppress treason, sedition, dis order and violence; and to cause to be punished all disturbances of public peace and all offenders against the criminal laws.” Minister Sison further advised RELIEF BODY RECEIVES P7,559 FOR INDIGENTS Voluntary Contributions amount ing to f*7,559 have already been received by the Special Relief Com mittee created recently by Pres ident Jose P. Laurel. The contri butions were received in response to an appeal made by the com mittee to private citizens for volun tary contributions to be used to help the unfortunate residents of Manila. The Special Relief Committee is headed by Minister Emiliano Tria Tirona of Health, Labor and Public Welfare. It is the same committee appointed by the President to ad vise him on the disposition of the 1*2,000,000 recently donated by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines for relief purposes. Laurel Pledges Anew Faith In GEA Charter Ideals Of 5-Point Joint Declaration Wholesome And Valid, He Declares In a nationwide radiocast on the occasion of the first anniversary of the approval of the GEA Charter, President Jose P. Laurel renewed his pledge of faith and support to the historic covenant, declaring that the principles embo died in the Charter are wholesome and valid. The President's speech follows in full: Fellow-Countrymen : I have been invited to speak this evening on the occasion of the an niversary of the Conference of Greater East Asiatic Nations. I am very glad that I am given this opportunity to talk to you. My countrymen: One year ago. the leaders of the peoples of Greater East Asia, at the invita tion of the Imperial Government of Japan, met in Tokyo to discuss multifarious problems common to them which had arisen as a result of the present world conflict. I had the honor to represent the Republic of the Philippines in that, conference, and I still retain a vivid recollection of the solemnity of the occasion and the thoughts and ideals therein expressed. As a result of this conference, the following five-point declaration was adopted; and, although I believe that you are familiar already with the principles enunciated in that declaration, I think it would be worthwhile everytime we comme morate this reunion that we live, understand, and reflect on their meaning and importance. These principles are: “1. The countries of Greater East Asia, through mutual coope ration, will ensure the stability of their region and construct an or der of common prosperity and well-being based upon justice. “2. The countries of Greater East Asia will ensure the frater nity of the nations in their region (Continued on page 2) Day And Night, Red Cross Ready For Any Emergency Bombs may be falling every where. Hundreds may be killed, and the peril of death may be pre sent at any corner, but the Red Cross workers doing first aid work under the Civilian Protection Serv ice are always ready to answer the call, within the city of Manila. That readiness, that alertness, far from diminishing, has been in tensified as far as the Philippine Red Cross, now thoroughly Filipinized, is concerned. That readiness is best exemplified during cases of severe stress, as during bombings, but it’s a matter of daily routine among the personnel of the Red Cross, specially the volunteer workers who do not get any pay but give all for the sake of human ity. Dr. Joaquin Canuto, director of. the Red Cross emergency and re lief activities, is a veteran in the game, and when he recites the acti vities pf the organization, his mind has an encyclopedic sweep. For he draws not only from theory but from the rich fund of accumulated experience in peace and in war. “We are used to doing the mira cle,” he philosophized, “but nothing that we had done in peace time can even approach the scope and extent of our activities today. When we rushed to a stormstricken, earthquake-hit, or plagueridden region during normal times, we go fully provisioned as to food and medical supplies and we had all the transportation facilities at our disposal. Now, when we are called upon to render aid, we have to look for the means to effect such aid, even in the matter of medi cines.” This, of course, is wartime, and the even tenor of life has been dis located everywhere; Even so, the organizational functions of the Red Cross have not been dislocated, and the body is still doing miracles. (Continued on page 3) With the recent approval by the Ministry of Economic affairs of the rules and regulations, prepared by the Bureau of Commerce and Industries, governing the proce dure of securing patents and the enforcement of the provisions of the Patent Law, the new Patent Office under the Bureau of Com merce and Industries is now fully organized and ready to act on the various applications for patents' already filed, according to Director Corr.elio Balmaceda of Commerce and Industries. The applicants are advised to call at the bureau to perfect their applications. The necessary forms for the different types of inventions, manufactures and improvements will be furnished . them. I This is the first time that a Patent Office is established in the Philippines. Many attempts made in the past to enact a patent law failed, but the National Assembly of the Republic of the Philippines, realizing the importance of having a Patent Office to give protection and encouragement to local inven tions, improvements and devices, approved Act No. 51 authorizing the organization of a Patent Office. Forthwith, the Bureau took steps to establish the new office by secur ing the services of the necessary personnel, including mechanical, electrical and chemical engineers, to act as examiners of inventions, processes and designs desired to be patented. the military governors to instruct all deputy military governors and municipal mayors in their respec tive jurisdiction to give the widest publicity possible for the full in formation of the public of the foregoing provision of law, warn ing the people to refrain from com mitting any of such criminal acts otherwise they shall be dealt with severely in accordance with mar tial law. Manila's Wartime Pictures— Business Goes To Sidewalks By Vicente L. del Fierro A few months ago, it used to be the “genuwine” or the dealers in second-hand clothing and utensils, acquired in clear as well as unclean manner, who cluttered up the side walks of certain streets in Manila, specially Tondo and Sta. Cruz. Then the city authorities slapped a ban, and the dealers of these “genuwine,” now confine them selves to Bambang street, from Azcarraga to the Bambang market. When one lost a pair of pants or a blanket, likely as one, one can find the missing article being peddled about in Bambang. Then the dealers of second-hand tools and automobile parts, without consulting anybody but their own good sense, appropriated unto themselves the sidewalks on the south side of Azcarraga, from Juan Luna to Folgueras, and the west side of Azcarraga, from Rizal Ave nue to Mulawen boulevard. On top of these, the big time dealers in automobiles, trucks and parts, installed themselves on both sides of Soler street, from Rizal Avenue to Evangelista; and the locksmiths and key dealers en trenched themselves at the alley of the State Theater between Rizal Avenue and Estero Cegado. These three were the fore runners of the sidewalk industry, if such it may be called, that is now city-wide. This sidewalk industry is most active throughout the whole length of Azcarraga, the whole length of Rizal Avenue, the whole length of Rosario, and to a lesser extent in almost all the streets of Manila. If you are hungry, there is “tinapay,” roasted coconuts, all sorts of cakes, coconut candies, guavas, chicos, lanzones, coffee, soft drinks, (Continued on page 2)

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