America Asks Japan to Pay Charges Totalling $2,214,007.36; Punitive Damages Excluded Washington, Mar. 22. qus 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 cover: s damages to several American merchant vessels bombed on the Yangtze near Nanking at the time of the sinking of the Panay.
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