Working quietly, the U.S. Army has substantially increased the number of technicians and aviation personnel. Nichols Field, on the outskirts of Manila, has become a beehive of activity with dozens of new army planes* arriving each month. Although two additional barracks were recently built, to house the enlarged personnel, many non-commissioned officers must live in nearby Paranaque. All available living quarters at Fort Stotsenburg, 57 miles north of Manila, are reported filled.
Differing from MacArthur's programme ct large infantry detachments, the U.S. Army's scheme of defence appears to be based on small, well-trained and highly mobile units, backed by an air force. These units travel in caravans of speedy trucks which also tow field guns and other weapons. Much mobile equipment has been received here in recent months.
What effect the Commonweath government's revision of its military programme will have on General MacArthur's status as military adviser to Sr. Quezon has become a subject of conjecture among Manilans.
Gen. MacArthur came to Manila early in 1936 following his retirement as US. Army chief of staff. Shortly after he instituted his defence programme for the Commonwealth government, Sr. Quezon appointed him Field Marshal in the Philippine Army—United Press,
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