394.115 Panay/198: Telegram
The Commander of the United States Yangtze Patrol (Marquart) to the Chief of Naval Operations (Leahy)99
[Hankow,] December 24, 1937—10:25
a.m.
[Received December 25—8 a.m.]
[Received December 25—8 a.m.]
0024. Two Chinese messmen ex-Panay now at Hankow state Jap boats who boarded vessel after abandoned exploded two bombs at stern which ended vessel. State they were hidden close to water’s edge and Americans had gone farther inland except possibly civilian who took some moving pictures from near river edge. Also state Jap boats machine-gunned them hiding.
- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Navy Department.↩