每天傍晚,几百个菲律濱的農家,都到在山麓下的梅格蘭城(Magalang)去,它是在呂宋中部的邦伯茄(Pampanga)省。他們趕着牛車,滿載着家用什物、猪及小雞,進入到城里的方場上。那兒,在有燭光的教堂的花磁地板上,村塾及堆棧内,菲律滨人就睡着過夜。到早晨,他們重又回到他們的田地上,離開約有五哩路遠。 這樣已過了幾個月了,因为在夜間‘胡克斯’(Huks)在鄉間來來去去,武裝的農夫襲击城鎮 Every evening, hundreds of Filipino farmhouses go to Magalang, in the foothills, in the province of Pampanga in central Luzon. They rushed ox cart, filled with household items, pigs and chickens, into the square on the town square. There, the Filipinos slept overnight in the candlelit church on the magnetic floor, in the village schoolhouse and on the stack. In the morning, they returned to their fields again, about five miles away. It was just a few months since armed peasants attacked the town during the night when Huks came and went in the country