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March 13 to 17 is Gen. Douglas MacArthur Week here in the city.

Through Resolution No. 12548-2017, the City Council during its regular session last week presided over by Vice Mayor Raineir Joaquin Uy, issued this declaration in commemoration of the 75th Diamond Jubilee of Mac Arthur’s breakout from Corregidor to Australia in 1942 passing through Cagayan de Misamis and Diklum, Tangkulan.

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Councilor Jay Pascual, chair of the committee on tourism, filed the resolution.

He said MacArthur  escape upon orders of then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt to get out of the country. (sp)

 

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