Left: PANAY MEMORIAL.—A photograph of a cover to mark the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay by the Japanese in China, which has been received by a local stamp collector from a friend on board the U.S.S. Mississippi. The superscription above tho photograph of the Panay on the left gives .the details of tho sinking, together with the particulars of the vessel, and concludes as follows: “For years our gunboats have been permitted by 'he Chinese Government to patrol their rivers for the protection of nations and tho suppression of piracy. Such was the duty of the gallant little vessel, which had never seen her own shores, for she was built at Shanghai, China.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 7
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113Left: PANAY MEMORIAL.—A photograph of a cover to mark the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay by the Japanese in China, which has been received by a local stamp collector from a friend on board the U.S.S. Mississippi. The superscription above tho photograph of the Panay on the left gives .the details of tho sinking, together with the particulars of the vessel, and concludes as follows:— “For years our gunboats have been permitted by ' he Chinese Government to patrol their rivers for the protection of nations and tho suppression of piracy. Such was the duty of the gallant little vessel, which had never seen her own shores, for she was built at Shanghai, China.” Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 7
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