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...leaders were killed. He was publicly cashiered, but with the outbreak of war in China was taken back into the Army. In December 1937, on his own initiative he ordered his artillery and air squadron to fire on the British gunboats Ladybird, Scarab and Bee, and on the U.S.S. Panay, which was sunk. For this gross insubordination he was reprimanded but never punished...
...political uses of deafness. In time he became chief of the big naval bases at Sasebo and Yokosuka, then Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleets. He was Navy Minister when Japan went to war, when the Navy let itself be sucked into the battle of Shanghai, when the Panay was bombed. He is said to have torpedoed an open military alliance with Germany last year with the remark: "The Japanese Navy belongs to the Emperor. It is not for hire by Hitler, or anyone else...
...Japanese Foreign Office, in stiffer language than the U. S. State Department used to protest the sinking of the U. S. S. Panay by Japanese bombers, notified British Ambassador to Japan Sir Robert Leslie Craigie that the Asama incident was "a serious unfriendly act," and demanded "a full and valid explanation promptly...
...summer of 1937 James had his first taste of war when he was sent out to China to help cover the Sine-Japanese conflict. That December when the Japanese army was threatening Nanking, the American embassy staff and all other nationals were evacuated to the Panay...
...Last Panay Life-Boat...