Wainwright handed Homma a document stating the parameters of the surrender. No one on the Japanese side showed any interest in what Wainwright had written. Homma said something. Would, his translator asked, Wainwright surrender all the forces in the Philippines? “Tell him,” said Wainwright, addressing the translator but staring at Homma, “I command no forces in the Philippines other than the harbor defense troops and small detachments in northern Luzon.
