Tokyo, Dec. 16.
Collection of funds for the construiction of a gunboat to replace the USS. Panay, bombed and sunk above Nanking on' Dec. 12, was proposed this morning by an anonymous reader {in an open letter to the Tokyo "Nichi-Nichi." This action, the letter said, would form a fitting expression of the Japanese nation's sincere and profound regrets.
Shyly visiting Mr. Yutaka Tsuchida, Director of the Accounts Bureau of the Foreign Office, two little Japanese school boys yesterday afternoon handed him ¥.7 with the explanation that they had saved their pocket. money in the hope of helping to comfort the victims of the sunken USS. Panay.—Domei,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.