JAPANESE APOLOGY
Machine-Gunning of Panay Denied (Eeceived 17, 1.50 p.m.) TOKIO, Dec. 16. The Ministry of the Navy, in apologising for the bombing of the Panay, expresses heartfelt appreciation of the calmness of the United States naval authorities on the spot and hopes that the occurrence, though grievous, will b© a step towards American-Japanese understanding. A Shanghai message says that the Japanese naval and military authorities deny that two Japanese' motorboats machine-gunned the Panay or tbe occupants of it or boarded her be4fore she sank.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 5
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85JAPANESE APOLOGY Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 5
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