A sum of, YJJӘ2, collected from the Japanese public by: the newspaper "Nichi Nichi" for people who suffered as a result of the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay, was handed to ihe -Ameritan. Ambassador, Mr. Joseph Grew, yesterday.
It represented nine-tenths of the total collected, the other tenth having been handed to the Italian Ambassador for the relatives of the Italian correspondent, Sandro Sandri, who was fatally injured aboard the Panay.
Mr. Grew expressed his deep appreciation of the gift. The United States Government, he added, believed tha American nationals should not receive or take any direct benefit from Gonations, but he would be pleased to hold them in the expectation that @ prominent Japanese would constitit himself the recipient and devote them to something in Japan that would testify to Japanese-Ameérican goodwill.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.