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Show Fall Of Manila Frees 5500 Enemy Cut Of f; Tokyo Next Says MacArthur Three Converging Columns Smash Into City to Clean Up Japs; Other Troops Control Bataan Roads MANILA, Tuesday, Feb. 6 i Manila, America's bright jewel of the orient, was reconquered Tuesday. Gen. Douglas MacArthur' officially of-ficially proclaimed its liberation as three Yank columns from ! north, south and east struck for the kill against any Japanese left in the city. He said "complete "com-plete destruction" of the enemy I is imminent. freedom came to 800 prisoners prison-ers of war and 550 civilian internees in-ternees at filthy, torture-chambered Bilibid penitentiary. Released Re-leased from the vermin-infested prison by 37th division Yanks, they made a total of about 5500 when added to other liberated earlier at Santo Tomas by the First cavalry division. "Japan is our final goal", Gen. MacArthur said in his statement offically announcing the recon-quest recon-quest of the city which the Japanese Jap-anese occupied January 2, 1942, one week after it was proclaimed proclaim-ed an "open city". |