San Francisco, July 9.
Lieut.-Commander J. J. Hughes, Commander of the ill-fated American gunboat U.SS. Panay, sailed from here today for San Diego where he will enter a Navy hospital for further treatment of wounds suffered when Japanese planes sank the Panay near Wuhu. last December.
During the past several days, the Panay commander has been under observation in the Mare Island hospital where it was believed he would have to undergo an operation for appendicitis. Navy physicians today decided that the operation would not be necessary at least until Commander Hughes had recovered from wounds suffered in the Panay bombing.
Commander Hughes' report to the Navy Department following the Japanese attack on the Panay said the Japanese planes had bombed and machine-gunned the ship from altitudes at which the American flags displayed on the gunboat could easily have been seen, The former Panay commander sailed for San Diego aboard the Navy Transport Henderson, He recently was decorated by the Government for his heroíam in the Panay incident,—United Press, Mexican Arms Patrol
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