| Show I I- I lc AR Pt K f Ajit Nip Hating Hati g Filipino Girl Takes Food F d to Yanks By N I Ii i WITH WITH THE DIVISION o ON LuzoN LUZON WV-Marita WV Marita all 1 0 p of her her her-h her had had be been nl ca carrying s supplies pi Uel to American r troops ps inthe nc thc Sierra Madre adro mountains for two m months before r an thi n officer discoVer er Th Then mh n Lt Anthony Ca Cancelosi of I Nutley y N N. J J. J the thc divisions division's civil affairs officer uncovered the story sf of how t this i 1 ear I by bya a con consuming hatred atred of ot the he enemy erie y plodded p Oded lip p moun mountain ln trails dally daily with it burdens of ot half her ier own w weight and and how she he ha had l' l become most vindictive Japanese killer kille Filipino men and boys who find findt it ft t difficult to to keep up p to her on the trail tell feU of 9 the time Jap lap snipers were harassing the human human hu man pa pack k tr train nt In the hills Ah M American patrol after them But while the soldiers were were advancing advancing ad ad- slowly Marita spotted the Uie yo t two snipers rs ari and killed themI them both with h her r rifle In all Sh ah she I says shY shyly t she h has a killed seven zeven even Girl Wore Trousers o ers Cancelosi first be became ame suspicious claus cious of th sex of ot th the barefo b barefooted ted trou trousers clad clad xa girl when he lie n noticed ed tier long fingers as she rea reached hed he'd o out t for for her er p Ab battered d cap covered her cut cut close t hair Marita J he jie e found is poorly educated edu edu and speaks speakS' very little English Eng lish But in her he heart rt is a a hatred I of f. f the Japanese that gives h her hem r strength and Md courage Hadn't the Japanese burned I d down the he h home me of her ller family ol of t 10 Hadn't one of the devils from fron I Nippon taken her to headquarters I for ques questioning and nd st stabbed I her er when she resisted restated his advances She Slie still sUJI remembers rs all aU to too clearl clearly r how hoYi she alie e escaped by jumping through gh a a. window and vanishing p into the night Marita started her treks into the mountains n two tw years ean a ago f r father Nicanor or ati came too ill m to continue supplies by night to guerin Gets eb allay DJ 1 Forthe hardest of the jObs pinos are ue doing to t h help p t troops ops she ane gets e Ith the ithe r 7 c a a day as do themen whom she he plods But more ore for the do doughboys g the he noon naomi hour bour rest she he their clothes in mountain at When she mew rd itt t the day she he takes mor clothes with clothes her f Marita m may y not havethe have havethe mu h the tho knowledge that cornea comes books but she she knows her her herl arn arms arnie s She says saya she hc has fired bines the Gar Garand nd rifle and nd Vt has hai thrown throe greni To carry arr th the lo loads ct of ratio raU j water or ammunition n e I ru from rom 4 45 to 66 65 sh ah ahe uses a ga a ga a a specially stick over her ah shoulders r. r If U burden burden is a single b box x It strapped tr p 1 to her herback back She SheW W Would Not N t Quit When e Lt Cancelosi f j Marita was wu a 1 girl h lIe w would have hive t to discharge hit her carrier She She insisted a she e strong and d pleaded ded for a ato i to continue He offered her hero work under the civil affairs affairs- at the same pay She Should the m meant nothing to her she wi wito to d do the thc job that would help So o when hc J the e ra rains co come comet e farriery l' l become an even eve o of getting a troops up front stocky ide dc mi mined ed little Marita Marit Will be in iIi Ii the li of raggedly clad ures urea plodding upward with burdens s. s |
