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PRIEST'S

PAL NETAŁA#F THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1931

ASTOUNDING

GAVE HIM REFUGE

ON NIGHT OF QUINSAN SHOOTING.

SAW HIM ARRESTED AND WOUNDED IN NECK.

PROMISES IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).

AN ASTOUNDING story, the more

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because it is now related for the first time,

more than seven weeks after the disap- pearance of John Thorburn, has been outlined to British investigators of the outrage by a Catholic priest residing at Quinsan. Any shadow of doubt that Thorburn was arrested! by Chinese soldiers is dissipated. The priest saw him seized, saw him wounded, and saw him taken away. .

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THORBURN STORY.

An emortuous amount of damage was done in Birmingham_n week nt au ago when the city was struck by a "tropical tornado.” Our pie. tore shows the side of a house blown completely away, in Victoria Street. Another picture appears on page Seven.

THE OPTIMIST.

MUI-TSAI

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66

Soviet

'Anxiety" To Pay Debts.

LONDON PARLEY

FARCE.

London, July 22. Answering questions in the House of Commons on the work of the Anglo-Russian Com- mittees dealing with debts, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs

said Lord Goschen, Chairman of the Committee, has reported the present state of these negotiations lo the Foreign Secretary, who is great- ly disappointed to find that so little progress has been made.

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SEE-SAW IN LONDON.

OPTIMISM AND

GLOOM.

Finance Ministers in Agreement.

London, July 22.

It is officially announced that the Committee of Fin- ance Ministers at the London Conference have agreed upon the terms of their Report, which is to be submitted for approval to a plenary session of the Conference to-morrow (Thursday).

It is understood that the Re-

Mr. T. V. Soung, who had a Barrow Dicape froin agonisina. tion this morning.

BOMB ATTACK

ON

The Soviet delegates do not yet port of the Finance Ministers MR. T. V. SOONG. appear to have submitted any pro-indicates a large measure of

STRIKE settlement, or even to agreement, recommending, inter

SPANISH STRIKE OUTRAGE.

EXPLOSION.

TERRIFIC BLAST.

haye indirated what categories alia, the renewal of the credit and types of claims they are pre- of twenty-five million sterling, SENSATION FOR pared to allow as ranking for which the Reichsbank is due to lions.

settlement, and on what condi-meet on August 16. The Com-

SHANGHAI. The work has therefore mittec proposes that the credit

"not"

days.

AT STATION.

Shanghai, July 23.

A sensational attempt to ļassassinate either Mr. T. V. Soong, the Nanking Minister It is probable that the process of Finance, or Mr. Shige-

Thsk For Bank.

vet progressed beyond the LORD PARMOOR & MANHOLE SHELL are of exchange of information datenewed for a further ninety FOUR WOUNDED

and explanations.

The Foreign Secretary has in- The Committee alsu recommende formed Lord Geschen that he pro- methods which will prevent the pases

to take an early opportunity withdrawal of foreign credits from to represent to the Soviet Ambas | Germany and which will help Ger. sudor the necessity of putting for- many generally and the Reichsbank (Our Own Correspondent.)

ward practical proposals if the particularly, Madrid, July 22.

negotiations are to be brought The Government is deter- to a Successful cunclusion. Thorburn had taken refuge for the night in the:

London, July 23. mined, once and for all, to crush British Wirrless, priest's house. He arrived shortly after ten o'clock stem was the subject of a brief which are growing worse every The Hongkong mid-tsai sy- 'the Syndicalist disturbances on the night of June 1 in a very bedraggled condition. ¡debate in the House of Lords day and are threatening the! He was arrested, though not until he had put up a last night, when a debate took stability of the new Republic. struggle, immediately on leaving the house on the place on slavery.

The principal ringlenders of Lord Parmoor, replying for the Syndicalist activities

were following morning.

the Government, expressed the arrested in Mudrid and Seville to- opinion that it was not pos. day and their headquarters have sible to bring any more mui been closed down.

sai into Hongkong!

A degren is to be issued shortly laying down very severe penalties

The dramatic disclosure is also made by the priest that Thorburn made an escape from his captors some hours later and fled towards his place of refuge of the night before. Soldiers were quickly in hot pursuit and he was recaptured.

FELL INTO THE CANAL.

Shangbai, Aule 201 The evidence furnished by the Catholic priest is to the effert that: he gave Thorburn shelter on thei night of June 1 (the day of his! unparture from Shanghad

a bayonet carried by one of the soldiers..

'Old Friends.

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but was pursued by soldiers the railway line and Along again seized. This time he was hurried in the direction Quinsun Station. It Was this attempt to escape that Thorburn received bayonet wound in the neck. The serious- ness of the wound the priest is! unable to say,

SHANGHAI COUNCIL AND THE FEETHAM REPORT.

Official Statement Issued.

He added that new all saggestion for strikes unless ten days prior of a servile status had been removed, the Government hoped that they notice is given. stem would die out in a short time Several serious armed clashes in and that it would be superseded by. Which many casualties, occurred, -(Our Own Correspondent.) the ordinary rules of free domestic caused anxiety to-day at Seville service.

and Tirana.

Shanghai, July 23, Meanwhile, there was a sensa The Shanghai Municipal Council tional incident in Barcelona, has issued an oflleial statement on an the Feetham Report this morning earthquake effect in the centre of as follows: the town by dropping a high ex- plosive shell down a manhole.

THE LINDBERGH where strikers created

FLIGHT.

TAKING OFF FOR FAR EAST NEXT WEEK.

New York, July 2 Very little is being left to chance in connexion with the

Säfety

Thore was a terrifle explosion

and people felt the shock over a wide area. Fifteen hundred tele- [phone lines were destroyed by the

blast-Reuter,

(See Picture Below).

REDS SEIZE BIG CITY.

"The Report of the Hon. Mr. Justice Feetham has re- ceived the consideration, and the unanimous commendation of the foreign Members of the Council.

"The Chinese Members are stil

Awaiting a translation of the Report into Chinese and are not therefore in a position to express their views.

"In the opinion of the Coun- ell, the appropriate procedure to be followed at this stage will be to note the Report and arrange through diplomatic channels for its submission to the Chinese and foreign Governments for their con- sideration."

On the following morning, bot saw Thorburn seized by Chinge} soldiers. The young Briton brake: away from his captors and dashed! down the railway line. He was, however, interested and arrested |

London. July 22. Hight of Lindbergh and his wife) after a struggle in which "he

Replying to questions in the to the Far East. received a wound in the neck from House of Commons in regard to The famotts airman plans to

the disappearance of John Thor- take off next week. nying via SWATOW FEARS AN burn, Mr. Hugh Dalton, the Under-Alaska, Siberia and Japan to

INVASION. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Chipa. #YQL,

stated that Sir Miles Lampson

measures include શ Telegraphic news has been re- understood that the Chinese watertight buoyant bundle which ceived in the Colony to the effect It appears that Thorburn was Government's Commission of En-will be automatically released if that a big Chinese city, near well-known to the Catholic priest quiry into the matter hat made the monoplane strikes the water. Swatow, has been seized by the This startling information, which received the text. whe has now come forward with their report, but he had not yet contains a boat with a mast and "Reds" and that considerable up- Anil, emergency rations and aprehension exists at Swatow, where clears away a good deal of the

| wireless act-Reuter's American there are fears of a Communist in-

WEATHER REPORTS. mystery associated with Thor.

Service.

vasion.

The name of the city is given in the telegram as Chow-fu, but it that pressure gradients are shal- The Royal Observatory reports is possible that the place may be low over the whole åren. Chaochow-fu, which is one of the depresston. over S. W, Japan is most important cities in the Swatow filling up. region.

Grave Disappointment.

burn's movements on the day of his disappearance.

Sir Miles Lampson had made Thorburn and his friends had very strong representations to the

Paris, July 10, There was launched at the Cher on previous occasions called upon Chinese authorities, expressing bourg Arsenal this morning. the the priest at his home when they with the full approval of the submarine Espoir, foremant of her were in the neighbourhood of Foreign Secretary, his grave dis-type Quinsan, or lieni.

Visit at Night.

Shortly after ten o'clock on the night of June 1. Thorburn knocked at the door and asked if he could bo put up. He was admitted in a

- very bedraggled condition.

He was wet through and in

reply to the priest's enquiry

10

appointment at their failure throw any light

оп the dis appearance and

warning them that further delay would confirm the suspicion that they are deliber- ately procrastinating in the bellef, that the case will be hushed up, and eventually forgotten.

Baid he had fallen into the canal,, Sir Austen Chamberlain' sug- gested that the Government bear

On the following moralng het mind the bearing of this case took his leave and had gone only

a few yards whẹn Chinese soldiers noticed him.

.

on the extrality negotiations.

Sir C. Coyzer urged the Govern thent to insist on the immediate appointment of a British repre- sentative for any further inquiry into the matter."

There's That Russian!" The priest heard them shout: "There's that Russian" And this agems to explain the first reports

Stronger Pressure. of the shooting incident at Mr. Dalton replied that obvious- Quinsan when it was stated that ally they could not insist upon, the Russian had been arrested. Thoy Chinese Government appointing evidently took Thorburn to be a British representative, but he Russlan

emphasised that Thorburn was seized, says the Henderson took a very grave view. Mr. Arthur priest, and led in the direction of of the matter and that Sir Miles Quinaan, where he was locked Lampson, with his full temporarily in a small house...»

approval, was going to continue to do He managed to broak-out of everything possible to exor

of the

cleared

suggested will be for the banks

themselves to undertake the immitsu, the Japanese Charge mediate work of supporting the D'Affaires, who had been to credits, thereby assisting Germany Nanking in connexion with to restore confidence.

Korean incidents, occurred Possibly

Jater the Bank International Settlements early this morning outside, will establish a committee to con- the railway station. sider various points associated with the restoration of Germany's financial stability.

of

travelled together from Nanking Mr. Soong and Mr. Shigemitsu

to Shanghai by the night ex- press.

Germany's Page Borrowings.

Some of the enuses of Ger-

On arrival this morning, they many's present plight are indicat. were entering motor-cars at the ed in figures published to-day by station exit when two bombs the Conimerce Department of the were thrown and a number of United States Government.

shots were fired They show that Germany and un At present there are no de unfavourable trade balance of tails of the affair, other than C$1,500,000,000 (£300,000,000) in

the

seven years ended December the fact that four persons are 1980. In the same period, known to have been wounded, Germany had had to pay out n sum either by the bombs or flying df C$2,450,000,000 (£10,000,000) bullets, as reparations.

Neither Mr. Soong nor Mr. In order to meet this expendi-Shigemitsu was hit and no ar ture, therefore, Germany had been rests have been made.

compelled 000.000.

to

borrow

French Resistance.

G$3,835,-

London, July 23.

It is believed that the attack was aimed at Mr. Soong, who had a very narrow escape.

Station Crowded.

'Lator.

If Dr. Bruening inkes back toj Berlin less than he expected, It will be, it belleved, largely Th station, which is just out- ascribed to the attitude of the sido ternational territory, was Freuch who have steadfastly crowded with ministers, who had maintained their pre-conference at-just emerged when the bomba titude, declining to grant new cre- were thrown and shots fired by dits to Germany without adequate Chinese dressed in black. guarantees.

Mr. Soong immediately with- Mr. Stimson, in an interview, drow to the railway offices after likened Germany to a leaky bath being nearly shot. Mr. Shigemitsu, He said they hoped to put in more who proceeded by motorcar, was

up the hole. water, but they must certainly plug also unhurt. During the excite- ment which followed the would-be satisfied with the latter expedient The

Germany apparently must be assassina escaped.

und Anglo-American efforta to ar- range now credits are reported to

Two Thenrics.

There are two theories regard-

have finally broken down following ing the objective, of the attack. a tussle between Mr. Philip Snow- One is that it was the Japanese edn and M. Laval, the French Pre-Minister and that the attackers mier,

word Communists whose object Win to create 1 diplomatic Mr. Snowden's Suggestion. Incident In the

bopu

that it would

The French account of the dia- result in serious trouble and pute saya that the British Chan possibly war with Japan. cellor urged that British, American i It will be recalled that it was and Franch banks should partiel-a similar objective which netunted pate equally in short-term credits. the Communists who were respon- M Laval opposed the suggestion. Aible for the Nanking outrage in The principal delegates have been 1927. In that case, the aim was invited to the King's Garden Party war between Chian and one or to-day,

more of the foreign Powera,

Hired Assassins,

A message from New York says that Wall Streat is disappointed by what they consider the virtual failure of the Conference-Reuter,

Still Confidential,

more of

The theory which is mostly held, however, is that Mr. Spong was the abjective and that the attackers, who, of course, were were acting on behalf of the hired, Cantonese.

The brief and concise document which was the butcome of yester day's dive-hour discussion by the It is known that the break bo- Committee of Finance Ministera|tween Canton, and Nanking is was, to-day under discussion at a hurting the former far more than plenary session of t

Seven

the latter. Especially.le Canton

Power Conference.

the

The terms of this statement are

confidential but it deals with tha methodi whereby the Amm

badly off for funds