Word: panay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of seven U. S. flags flying from the Panay and painted on her, the Japanese bombers might have made a mistake, but when they dived and bombed her a second time the Panay's crew could no longer believe it. They manned the machine guns on deck and began to fire. Respecting the machine guns, the planes did not come close enough to score direct hits on their third and fourth returns but their bombs struck alongside, puncturing her near the water and hastening her sinking...
...ashore in small boats, the planes machine-gunned them, then veered off to bomb three Standard Oil tankers. The refugees, fearful of more attacks, lay freezing in the muck & reeds of the river bank when Japanese motorboats appeared, fired a couple of belts of machine gun bullets into the Panay, boarded her and finally left her to sink. Two hours and 20 minutes after the attack began the Panay capsized and sank. Not until long after dark, by devious routes, some carrying their wounded on borrowed stretchers, did the survivors reach the town Hohsien. There they were picked up some...
This week in Shanghai industrious New York Timesman Hallett Abend believed he had discovered that the machine-gun attack on the Panay's survivors was ordered personally by Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, leader of an especially notorious Japanese military clique. Colonel Hashimoto was generally regarded as one of the heads behind the unsuccessful Tokyo putsch nearly two years ago, when Army detachments ran amok, murdered Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, seized the Metropolitan Police building (TIME, March 9, 1936 et seq.). Afterwards 15 young Japanese officers were executed but Colonel Hashimoto, having political influence, was merely cashiered. This year Japan...
...departing gunboat put off a motor sampan, which returned to pick them up. Thankful for their rescue and still a little worried for the safety of their friends they left behind, Mayell and Alley were, a few minutes later, climbing up the side of the U. S. S. Panay...
Aboard the Panay, Messrs. Mayell and Alley joined 14 other civilians fleeing upriver, among them six journalists: Weldon James, United Press Nanking chief; G. M. McDonald of the London Times; Norman Soong of the New York Times; Luigi Barzina and Sandro Sandri, Italian correspondents; James Marshall, Collier's staff writer. Within 24 hours these eight newsmen had ringside seats at what may still become this century's Maine affair, when Japanese airplanes and machine guns from launches bombed, strafed and sank the Panay 25 miles upriver from Nanking...