AIR CHIEF BLAMED
SECRECY ABOUT RECALL
LONDON, December 18.
The Tokio correspondent of "The Times" says the newspapers are forbidden to publish news of the recall of Rear-Admiral Neizo Mitsunami, Chief of Aerial Operations in China, upon which officials decline to comment. Nevertheless it is .evident that as the highest Japanese naval air officer in China he is being held responsible for the attack on the American ships. The British United Press correspondent at Tokio says a. new American Note has been presented. It is understood it refers'-to the machine-gunning of the Panay. A message from Tokio states that authoritative quarters admit that Admiral Hasegawa offered to resign, but the offer was not accepted, because the Panay sinking was Rear-Admiral Mitsunami's affair.
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Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 11
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