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...Tokyo last week to a subordinate official of the U. S. Embassy by a subordinate official of the Japanese Foreign Office. Thus the Imperial Japanese Government paid in full as quietly as possible the following itemized bill, presented by Uncle Sam after Japanese bombers sank the U. S. river gunboat Panay and Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s tankers Met Ping, Mei Hsia and Mei An (TIME, Dec. 20) : Property losses - Navy Dept...
...graceful 320-ft. yacht was built at J. & G. Thompson's shipyards, Clydebank, Scotland, painted white, launched as the Mayflower, sold to Manhattan Landlord Ogden Goelet for $1,250,000. Two years later the U. S. Navy bought her for $430,000, ran her as a dispatch & gunboat in Cuban waters. Thereupon the naval auxiliary Mayflower cruised in U. S. waters and abroad, carried such potentates as Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, made history as the signing place of the peace treaty following the Russo-Japanese War. In 1902 she became the Presidential yacht of Roosevelt...
Boat. Having already promised to make "indemnification for all the losses" sustained when Japanese bombing planes sank the U. S. gunboat Panay, proceeding up the Yangtze with a convoy of three Standard Oil tankers last December 12, Japan last week received an itemized bill from U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew in Tokyo. Property losses were put at $1,945,670.01, indemnification for death and personal injuries at $268,337.35. On the total of $2,214,007.36, which includes no punitive damages, the State Department expected prompt payment...
...curiosities-among them Thomas A. Edison's first incandescent lamp, a hammer from Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky home, a cannon ball Mr. Eldredge firmly believed to be the first fired against Fort Sumter, an 8½-lb. petrified oyster, a piece of wood from the Confederate gunboat Merrimac. In 1933 he advertised for sale "a fully equipped museum, an honor to any town or city...
Before the Japanese encircled Nanking, the gunboat Panay-day before it was sunk-evacuated most foreigners from the doomed city and the Chinese defense commander, General Tang Sheng-chi, fled, leaving his officers and men to their fate. During the four terrible days between the departure of the Panay and the arrival of the Japanese fleet, Nanking was a flaming chaos without government, without telephones, electricity or water supply. Not many more than a score of white men, most of them Americans and most of the Americans missionaries, remained during the siege in which the Japanese slaughtered 33,000 Chinese...