STARTLING ANGLE.
MACHINE GUN USED?
JOURNALIST’S S’lOIlY
Received December 16, 8.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. . A startling angle to the Panay incident is the heavy headlining of a report from H.M.S. Bee quoting a journalist eye-witness to the effect that two Japanese motor-launches machinegunned the Panay after the first bombing. Japanese then boarded the Panay but left before the vessel sank. ... , T -it i A report lias arrived at New York of the high feelings in the American colony at Shanghai in consequence of the revelations. of the journalist. It is noteworthy that the Augustus casualty list specified that three United States naval ratings were wounded by bullets and not by bombs and splin-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 9
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115STARTLING ANGLE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 9
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