GUERRILLA FIGHTERS HUNTED IN PHILIPPINES
(The following article appeared in the December 15 issue of Laging Una, a newspaper of the Filipino people published in Los Angeles, California. ] *x* * * Confessing failure of its efforts to find, capture or kill the two top leaders of the dissident Huk movement, the Philippine gov-~ ernment Dec. 12 raised the rewards offered for then, "dead or alive." For Supremo Pedro Taruc the reward was increased from $25,000 to $32,500, and for Faustino del Mundo (known in the Huk ranks as Commander Sumulong) from $20,000 to $30,000.
Similar appeals to human cupidity in the past yielded positive results. Traitors and informers led several Huk leaders into ambushes or reported their whereabouts so that government troops could close in on them. While elements of the Philippine Constabulary hunt the Huks in the rice-growing Central Luzon area where Pampanga, Nueva Ecija and Tarlac provinces meet, the Huks are not restricting themselves to defensive and evasive tactics. PEDRO TARUC
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