Spent the morning in Fort Aguinaldo with the USAFIP, NL [United States Army Forces in the Philippines – Northern Luzon] boys playing golf from 10 to 12 on the eve of Bessang Pass day tomorrow.
Then a nap, some telephone conversations and exercise, mass at 6:45 PM, then a movie during which we took dinner and talked to the children in London, to Irene mostly as she cried when I talked to her last.
While it has stopped raining, it is cloudy and dark. There is another low pressure area east of Mindanao.
A rented motorboat with 130 passengers from the Ruby Industrial Corporation capsized at 4:00 PM yesterday between Corregidor and Cabcab[e]n. About twenty are counted drowned.
The radicals bombed the Cons. Con. [Constitutional Convention] hall at Manila Hotel after midnight on the 11th after the election of ex-Pres. C.P. Garcia as President. Yesterday they bombed the Jusmag [Joint US Military Assistance Group] (2 bombs) and throw pillboxes at the Embassy resulting in the injury of two policemen and a demonstrator.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.