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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...
Only once was Hindmarsh arrested by Japanese police in Shanghai, and that was outside the Soviet Embassy. In the war zone after the Panay incident, officers were instructed to pick up all Americans and apologize profusely for the bombing. "I got feeling a little guilty about the Panay after four or five arrests," Hindmarsh said...
Speaking of the Panay incident, films of which were shown at the conclusion of the lecture, he said, "The fact that some 80 Japanese soldiers who ran out into the river in an attempt to warn the attacking bombers of the Panay's nationality were machine-gunned, and two officers killed, does not indicate that the attack was a result of an order from higher...
According to Universal Cameraman Norman Alley and the U. S. Navy, when the Panay anchored at the spot where it was sunk, soundings were taken...
...Panay incident was a dramatic demonstration of that feature of the Japanese constitution under which the army and navy (1 are pledged to conquer the Orient for Japan, 2 must obey to the letter the orders of the civilian premier, 3 need pay no attention to orders from either the premier or the Emperor, 4 are responsible only to the Emperor and virtually independent of the civilian Government, 5 are responsible only to commanders in the field...