THORBURN MURDER
NOTE tfBOM NANKING
PERPETRATORS PUNISHED
j (Bcceivcd 31st October, 11 a.m.); SHANGHAI, 30th October. Details are available of the Chinese! Note, replying to the British Govern-* j ment's demand for a further inquiry] into the- mysterious disappearance in! June of the youth John Thorburn, aged; nineteen, during a hiking tour.
The Note admits Thorburn's capture and subsequent brutal .killing, but the investigators are unable to locate the, body, which is believed to have bee-ul burned when the soldiers became ala-rni-* cd by the British community's agita« tion.
The Nanking Government is 'reported; to have informed the British Govern, ment that the guilty parties have been! punished, and Colonel Wang, commanding the regiment responsible, has been, stripped of his rank and imprisoned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 13
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123THORBURN MURDER Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 13
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