From: Manila
To: Tokyo
August 20, 1941
Purple
#532
Re your Circular #1793
[a].
I am reporting to you
below information which I have been able to get, though it may be somewhat
incoherent.
1. There are many tall
buildings in the city, to the upper stories of which admittance is forbidden.
It is thought, therefore, that antiaircraft guns have been placed in them. It
is fairly certain that guns have been placed on the Great Eastern Hotel (some
have actually seen ten disguised machine guns on the top of it,) the
(hitchcock?) Avenue Hotel (this is the former Marco Polo Hotel), and on the Insular
Life and the Trading Commerce. Besides these, I presume guns have been placed
on top of the Capitol, the Municipal Building, the post office, etc. (I believe
that the army and the navy both have in their possession a map giving the
locations of the tall buildings in the city.).
2. A person has seen
during the evenings in the latter part of July, 36 anti-aircraft guns being
transported to Camp Murphy.
ARMY 21461 Trans. 8/26/41 (6)
[a] Not available.
(EXHIBITS OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 2 JAPANESE MESSAGES CONCERNING MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, SHIP MOVEMENTS, ETC.)