Homma grinned as if it were obvious. “Hostilities against the troops in the fortified islands of Manila Bay will be continued,” he said. Then he proposed a solution. He would provide a Japanese plane so Wainwright could send a staff officer as a messenger to General Sharp on Mindanao. At this point, the two commanders began repeating themselves: Wainwright insisting he had given up control over the Visayas and Mindanao; Homma asking again and again why a general could not take back what he had given up and growing angrier each time.
