The Moros Nemesis to the Japs on Mindanao

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Nemesis to the Japs on Mindanao. Of the Moros, I reiterate to the great American president, my people's plates of loyalty to the government of the United States.

The Moros enlisted as Bolomen and their mic command well-fied to the last and die for America and their country. From out of the hills of Mindanao came this message from Dattu Piang as the Japanese swarmed over his island two months after Pearl Harbor.

Today Piang and his moros are still unconquered. With their razor-sharp creases, dreadful knives with wavy blades, they are surprising and sloughing the Japanese as they have slaughtered invaders of Mindanao for hundreds of years. In the wooded mountains of Mindanao, they await the return of the Americans.

Mindanao, home of Piang and his thousands of Boulomen, is the southernmost of the Philippine Islands, the nearest island of the Philippines to the war operations in the southwest Pacific. With the attacks on Palau Islands and the drive westward, Mindanao bids fair to be a key to the Philippines and the assault to come on the inner empire of Japan.

Driven back into the hills, the morrows among the fiercest fighters on earth are a deadly paral at the back of the invaders. The morose are Mohammedan. Oye who believe when you meet the marshal hosts of the infidel, turn not your backs to them. They quote from the Quran, who so shall turn his back to the infidel unless he turn aside to fight or to rally his forces