"North-China Daily News' is reliably informed, on ices received on An gust 7 from Nanking, that President Chiang Kai-shek has issued orders from Nanchang for another and thorough investigation into the circumstances of the disappearance of Mr. Joh Thorburn, in the light of the further representations made to the Chinese Government by Sir Miles Lampson at Nanking.
It is understood that the President's orders are of the most definite kind and call firmly for 'a most searching investigation. This is the outcome of the personal efforts which Sir Miles Lampson has been making since arrival at Nanking by air from Peitaiho on July 28.
There have been conversations between Sir Biles and Dr. C. T. lis Wang who have discussed the matter at great length. Some difficulty was created "by absence of General Chiang Kaishek in Kiangsi, where he _has been engaged in personally dixect~ ing the campaign against the rebel Communist armies. General Chiang. Kai-shek was, however, apprised at Nanchang of the British Government's views on the reply sent by the Chinese Government on July 16 to the representations made in dune, by the British Minister on the subject of Mr, Thorburn's whereabouts.
Tt will be recalled that Mr. Henderson on July 27 instructed Sir Miles Lampson to point out that an independent inquiry had tablished beyond reasonable doubt that Mr. Thorburn, who was tunder suspicion in some' quarters of having shot and fatally wounded two Chinese gendarmes, had been arrested and handed over to a, pherenit aria neatly
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