Acting upon information furnished by officers of the Greater Shanghai Bureas of Public Safety, the French Police arrested"
August: 5 Teng Char-yen alleged to be the leader of the band of gunmen responsible for the attempted assassination of Mr. 'T. V, Soong, the Finance Minister, at the Shanghai North Railway Station on July 23. "He was also alleged to be the Principal in making an_attempe on the life of Generalissimo Ci Kai-shek in Nanchang several d later, At the police station, the arrest-man stated he was formerly chief secretary to Gen, Li Chi-san, former chairman of the Kuangtung Provincial Government, who has boon detained by Gen. Chiang in Nanking since the Kuangst revolt in On August 6, 'Teng was ar-reigned before Judge Loo in the Second Special District Court when an application was made by 2 representative of the Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety for accused's extradition. The Court, however, remanded' accused custody ' until August 12 on the ground that the Chinese police authorities had not produced prima facie evidence to support their charges against accused and that further investigations were therefore necessary Questioned by the Court, accused vigorously denied the charge and stated that he was a member of the Kuomintang and loyal sup: porter of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and that when he was studying in Germany a number of years ago, he was called back to China by the late Party leader to participate in national revolution, 'Accused, who' described himself as a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, admitted, however, that he was arrested in Nanking at the time Gen. Li Chi-sen was taken into custody. He, accused said, was ater released by order of ' Gen. "Chiang and on account of this, he was very grateful to the General. After being released, he returned to Shanghai at the request of Gen. Chiang to console Mrs. Li in connection with the detention of her husband.
As stated, the Court remanded the ease until August 12. Mr. Shih Kung, counsel for defence, requested that accused be accorded better treatment in jail than armed robbers and other criminals, Chinese military authority, who found means to silence wit~ nesses with a knowledge of the tacts. Tt was therefore the Srst uty of the Chinese Government firstly to discover Mr. Thorburn's whereabouts and to hand him over the British. authorities if he was still alive, and secondly suitably to punish any military authorities responsible for maltreating him or Jcausing his death.
'The instructions ended with strong request to the Chinese Gov-Jernment "with "all expedition to' find means of persuading the military authorities concerned of the urgent necessity of enabling the Thinese Government to carry. out the ordinary, obligations of a civilised state.
These instractions have been in discussion between Sir Miles and Dr. C. T, Wang since July 28. Communication was established with General Chiang Kai-shek. The result is now seen in the order for the new and more thorough inquiry, 'A Reuter message from Nanking [states that inquiries failed to confirm the report, not published in the "North-China Daily News," that the body of Mr. Thorburn had been found at Soochow.
Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister, is still in Nanking.
Further information has been obtained from Nanking regarding the new inquiry ordered by Gen-oval Chiang Kai-shek for investigating the disappearance of Mr. Thorburn. The President the inguiry commission is expected to be & high official of the Ministry of War. He and his colleagues will have available the evidence collected by the British consular authorities and, in ytarticular, special steps may be taken to acquaint them with the details per-Scott, sonally unravelled by Mr. A. L.
In view of the material available j—and it should be added that further valuable evidence has come to} ight in the last few sdays—it is thought that the inquiry should be completed in less than a fortnight.
General Chiang Kai-shek's deci sion to order a new inquiry was Jcouched in most emphatic language, It is felt that he has given the Commission the clearest. possible injunction to arrive at the truth ut all costs and to take suitable action without hesitation.
Peking, Aug. 10, it Miles Lampson, British Mi for, has returned ' to Peitaiho. When he flew back from Nanking in the Eurasia plane he did not come nto the city but stayed a short while at the Nanyuan aerodrome and then flew to Peitaiho in the aeroplane of Count de Sibour, who had returned to Nanyuan from Tsinan-fo—Reuter,
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