Thorburn Case
BRITISH RIGHTS IN CHINA NEGOTIATIONS IN NEW LIGHT [By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright] Received July 31, 6.19 p.m. LONDON, July 30. The Manchester Guardian, in a leading article on the disappearance of the British youth Thorburn from Shanghai, states: “It is certain that in spite of the special privileges, British subjects cannot be protected in many parts of China because of the collapse of civil authority. This places the whole question of extraterritorality on an entire ly different footing from that which it has occupied in the past. The Thorburn case is bound to have a considerable influence on the negotiations which have been taking place spasmodically for a long time past over the abolition of the legal privileges which British subjects enjoy in China. It is evident that up-country English lives can only be adequately guaranteed if we secure at our own cost the adequate policing of the country. Such a programme is entirely out of the question, but in the treaty ports, and especially in Shanghai, the position is quite different. There the safety of foreigners can be adequately guaranteed, and the existence of these settled centres of business is of great advantage to China in her present time of anarchy.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 180, 1 August 1931, Page 7
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204Thorburn Case Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 180, 1 August 1931, Page 7
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