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...Kingoro Hashimoto, 65, the colonel who, on his own initiative, ordered the 1937 shelling of three British gunboats in the Yangtze River and sank the U.S. gunboat Panay. Near war's end, Hashimoto exhorted his countrymen to make suicidal attacks. Incarceration did not ease the colonel's bitterness. Grim-faced as ever, he rasped: "I am angry from the bottom of my heart at the injustice and irrationality of the war-crimes trials. I feel strongly my responsibility for our defeat. I apologize deeply to the Japanese people...
Died. Commander James J. Hughes, 55, skipper of the famed Xavy gunboat Panay when she was sunk in an attack by Japanese bombers in China's Yangtze River in 1937; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington...
...Manila. After working his way through the University of California and the University of Chicago, he returned to the Philippines, gave up a brief teaching career to enter politics, in 1937 was elected governor of Iloilo. When the Japanese came he rejected collaboration feelers, declared himself governor of all Panay, sent word to the invaders: "I will not surrender as long as I stand on my feet." When MacArthur returned, he was still standing...
...take the most extreme action first. If you have a little flurry on the border somewhere, you don't take a sledge hammer to kill a fly. You take what action is necessary, and it may be something short of force. The Japanese attack on the gunboat Panay in 1937 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 were good examples. Both were armed attacks; one called for response by armed force and the other...
Miss Gerrish began her play readings last year. On occasion the station requested various actresses to do a similar show. Panay Prince '48, now starring in HDO's "Amphitryon 88," was a guest speaker last year...