1938-01-03 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, JANUARY

1938.

SINKING OF THE

On December 12, just after lunch, whon nowspapormon and off- duty members of the crow were basking on deck in U.S.S. Panay, bombers swooped upon her. She was struck, commenced to settle immediately. Later, so the survivors tell, the ship and the ship's boats were machine-gunned, With their wounded, the Panay's crew and the fow passengers made thoir way ashore and hid in a bamboo swamp. Some of them hunted for help. It was four days before H.M.S. Ladybird and U.S.S. .Oahu landed the survivors and the doad at Shanghai.

PANAY

THE PANAY IS SINKING.-Water is flush with the deck and pouring into her.

Presently

it will gush through the bomb-hole pictured here. The survivors are in the boats, heading for shora;

-EXCLUSIVE PICTURES

THERE WERE A FEW NEWSPAPERMEN ABOARD the Panay. Here are two seamon and a junkman an the left, then Weldon Jamos, of United Press, Soong of the New York Times, Mac- Donald, formerly Hongkong newspaperman, and Borzini, an Italian journalist, whose companion was killed.

ASHORE, SOON AFTER LANDING, everyone tried to comfort the wounded. But treatment was rough at best.

STRETCHER CASES were handled as gently as possible. With them in this littlo junk is

the Panay's doctor. They are on their way to H.M.S. Ladybird.

ONE OF THE WOUNDED helps a more seriously injured comrade, the gallant First Lieutenant of the Panay, wounded in four places.

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