Manila has fallen to victorious American troops and the city, although looted by the Japanese "still stands nearly intact," Royal Arch Gunnison, correspondent for Mutual Broadcasting System, reported last night after a trip into the Philippine capital.

MANILA, Feb. 5, 1945 (INS) - Boiled hibiscus leaves were the worst, but we did not eat these very long because the camp doctors discovered they are slightly poisonous and in our case, just a touch of poison was enough.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 1945 (UP) - The Big Three have agreed on plans for enforcing unconditional surrender terms on Germany, the calling of a United Nations' conference on world security organization problems, and future quarterly meetings of their foreign secretaries.

MILAN, April 29, 1945 (UP) - Italian Patriots executed Benito Mussolini Saturday, and Sunday a howling mob is kicking and spitting on his remains lying in the center of this city where Italian Fascism was born.

REIMS, France, May 7, 1945 (Delayed) (UP) - Representatives of four Allied powers and vanquished Germany scrawled their names on a sheet of foolscap in a map-lined 30-by-30 foot room at 2:41 a.m. European time today and ended World War II in Europe.

PARIS, May 8, 1945 (UP) - The bloodiest war in European history will come to its official end at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow, European time, with the formal end of hostilities on a continent desolated by more than five years of conflict.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 1945 (UP) - The most terrifying engine of destruction ever devised by man - an atomic bomb carrying the explosive force of more than 20,000 tons of TNT - was turned loose against Japan Sunday (Monday Japan time) as American airmen opened a "surrender or else" assault on the Japanese homeland.

GUAM, Aug. 7, 1945 (UP) - Tokyo radio said today that parachute-borne atomic bombs caused such destruction at Hiroshima Monday that the Japanese still had not learned the full extent of the damage more than 36 hours after the enemy army center became the first target for the most deadly weapon in history.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 1945 (UP) -- Diplomats raised the question today of what the

GUAM, Aug. 7, 1945 (UP) - American Superforts and fighters raked Japan with bombs and strafing fire in what Tokyo radio indicated may have included another atomic bomb attack.

GUAM, Aug. 8, 1945 (UP) - Tokyo conceded today that a single atomic bomb completely destroyed most of the town of Hiroshima Monday morning and said the blasted and blistered corpses in the town which once had a population of 348,000 were too numerous to count.

GUAM, Aug. 9, 1945 (UP) - The second mighty new atomic bomb to rock Japan fell on the teeming war city of Nagasaki at noon today and first reports indicated that the attack was as successful as the explosion that devastated Hiroshima.

GUAM, Aug. 10, 1945 (UP) - The city of Nagasaki, blasted yesterday in the war's second atomic bomb attack, was left covered with a 20,000-foot pall of smoke and dust, it was announced today, as the United States high command solemnly warned the enemy that it would continue to use the pulverizing bomb "again and again" unless the Japanese stop the war.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 1945 (UP) - Japan surrendered unconditionally tonight, bringing peace to the world after the bloodiest conflict mankind has known.

German resistance which was still blazing when we rolled into Paris at this time yesterday seems to have been wiped out today.