Honolulu, Dec. 26.
Two apparent Japanese attempts to Obtain motion pictures taken aboard the U.S.S. Panay by Mr. Norman Alley were revealed here to-day by the ace Universal Newsreel cameraman who is en route to the United States with the films.
A Japanese spokesman, he said, attempted to reach him in Shanghai the Saturday following the fatal bombing of the Panay by Japanese planes. Mr. Alley said he was under an American naval and Marines escort, however, and refused to see the Japanese spokesman, A second possible attempt to obtain the films was made when a Japanese seaplane circled over the American destroyer Stuart when he was en route to Manila from Shanghai with the historic pictures, Mr. Alley said. He was unable to determine when ther the Japanese plane was armed and emphasized the two incidents might have been coincidences.
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