"We often passed running streams," said Major Gunn,
 
"but the Japs seldom allowed us to drink. A few prisoners tried it,
 
 mostly Filipinos. They were shot down and left dying where they fell.
 
 If we drank from muddy carabao wallows, though, the Japs didn't
 
 seem to mind. That's where so many hundreds of us got dysentery,
 
 I suppose."
 
             During the long march these groups of Bataan prisoners passed
 
 through the village of Lubao, and were kept there overnight. They were
 
 quartered in a warehouse of galvanized tin, with no windows but with
 
 a few small grid openings near the floor. First the Japanese would herd
 
 as many prisoners into the building as seemed possible, requiring them all
 
 to stand. Then, when the building was completely full, more prisoners 
 
were placed just outside the door and a steel cable was attached to one corner 
 
of the building. Several guards then took the other end of this cable and by
 
pulling it taut, they squeezed all those outside into the building. The 
 
sliding door was then closed and secured for the night.
 
     During the night no prisoner was allowed outside this building for
 
 any reason whatsoever. Many of the prisoners were ill, or were walking
 
 wounded. Since there were no sanitation facilities inside, and since 
 
several persons died each night, it is easy to understand why those who
 
made the death march always shuddered when they described their 
 
overnight stop in the village of Lubao.
 
 
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