Word: panay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sanction. Last week Vice Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, Commander-in-Chief of Japan's China Fleet, firmly refused. His reasons: 1) possible interference with Japanese naval strategy; 2) the Monocacy might strike a Chinese mine; 3) the gunboat might be mistakenly fired upon by Japanese shore batteries, producing another Panay type incident; 4) the Japanese consider the recently captured Matung boom below Kuikiang "a prize of war" which no U. S. ship has a right to pass. But despite Japanese officiousness, Admiral Yarnell knows his nation's rights. Early this week the gunboat Oahu was steaming up the Yangtze...
Death and personal injury indemnification - for the death of two members of the crew of the Panay and the captain of the Mei Ping, and injury of 74 other persons on board the Panay and other vessels...
...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...
...Loss of Panay $ 455,727.87 Loss of ship's equipment and supplies 97,766.48 Effects of personnel 40,263.00 Total...
Having thus explained Japan, the Japanese and the Panay incident (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.) to the New Orleans press, the Hon. Kaju Nakamura was ready to bow his visitors out. But on the smoke-screen point they pressed him vigorously, recalling that sharp U. S. eyes had brought back reports of Japanese bombers wheeling down out of a clear, bright winter sky. Fenced the Hon. Nakamura, grinning toothily, "This is my story, and I'm sticking...