1 AUGUST 1931, Page 2

China Mr. John Thorburn, a nineteen-year-old British resident in Shanghai,

disappeared on June 3rd. There is conclusive evidence that he was arrested by the military police. He was in their hands when he was last heard of on June 11th. The official inquiry by the Chinese authorities into his case was a farce. The Nanking Government, by adopting an attitude of brazen concealment of the circumstances of a breach of faith which involves the liberty, and all too probably the life, of a foreigner, has wantonly damaged the foundations of China's relations, not with Great Britain alone, but with all the Powers.