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...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...
...Many of the scenes in the moving pictures of the Panay sinking," he cackled, "were faked in American waters." Then, with reporters too amazed to ask him which of the grimly bloody scenes he referred to, he went on to astound them even more...
...There is one mystery we haven't solved in Japan yet," mused he. "The mystery of the smoke-screen that veiled the Panay during the bombing so our airplane pilots could not distinguish her American flag. Those bombers thought they were bombing fleeing Chinese...
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...