The Wolf

The Japanese considered all Filipinos, including women and children, as guerrillas, and ordered them put to death upon advance of the Americans on Manila. The orders prescribed the procedure to be followed: the victims were to be gathered in a house or other place, killed with the least expenditure of amunition and manpower, and the bodies disposed of by burning with the building or being thrown into a river. These orders were carried out and supervised by officers of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy.

—Appendix C, Review of the Record of Trial by a Military Commission of Tomoyuki Yamashita, General, Imperial Japanese Army, The Case of General Yamashita: A Memorandum by Courtney Whitney