America Asks Japan to Pay Charges Totaling $2,214,007.36: Punitive Damages Excluded Washington, Mar, 22, TTHE United States Government informed Japan to-day that America is prepared to accept $2,214,007.36 in payment for damages to American property and nationals in the fatal Japanese bombing of the American gunboat Panay above Nanking last December.
The sum also covers damages to several American merchant vessels bombed on the Yangtze near Nanking at the time of the sinking of the Panay.
The figure of damages was. delivered "to. the Japanese Foreign Office by the American Ambassador to Tokyo, Mr. Joseph Grow. It re~ called Japan's promises of indemnification following the Panay incident. The sum asked by the United States exceeded advance estimates in official quarters here by several hundred thousand dollars.
"Reference is made," the American Note said, "to exchanges of communications between my Government and Japan regarding the attack on the American' gunboat Panay and American merchant vessels December 12 by Japanese armed forees and to assurances contained in. your Government's Note of December 1 and reaffirmed in its Note of December 24 that the Japanese Government. would) make "indemniticaresulting from deaths and personal injuries, The amount does not Include punitive damages."
The two Americans Killed during the Japanese bombing and sinking of the "Panay and the American merchant vessels were Charles Ensminger, store. keeper of the Panay, and Capt. C. H. Carlson, Commander of the Socony tanker Mei An, An Ialian newspaper correspondent, Signor Sandro Saudi, also was killed Jon board the Panay.
The Panay and the merchant ships, owned by the Standard Oil-Ca, were bombed and sunk by Japanero planes near Hohsien on the Yangtze River last December while they were removing American nationals from Nanking shortly before the Japanese captured the eity—United Press.
Japan Publishes Note "I am instructed by the State Department of my Government to inform you that it finds the amount of "property losses §1,945,076.01 and the amount of indemnification which should be paid in death and personal injury cases $268,337.35. Therefore the total amount which my Government is prepared to acetpt ts $2,214,- 007.36, "These figures are arrived at after careful consideration and represent only the actual property losses and a Tokyo, Mar. 23, The American Note, giving an count for damages arising from the sinking of the "American gunboat Panay, was published here to-day by. the Foreign Offlce—Reuter,
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