CHINA AND JAPAN
SOVIET’S NEUTRALITY, (Received this day at 9.25 a.m) (Dnited Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] TOKYO, October 30. Persistent reports of Soviet military activity in Northern Manchuria are discredited. The Tokyo Government is relying on the Soviet assurances of neutrality, although the Japanese officials are aware that Nanking is trying to invoke Soviet assistance against Japan. CHINESE NOTE. DISAPPEARANCE ENQUIRY. SHANGHAI, October 30. Details are available of the Chinese Note replying to the British Government's demand for further inquiry into the mysterious disappearance in June of the youth. John Thorhurn. aged nineteen, during a hiking tour. Ihe Note adds Thorburn's capture and subsequent brutal killing, hut investigators are unable to locate the body, which is believed to have been burned when the soldiers became alaimed by tbo Hritish community's agitation.
Nanking Government- is reported to have inform-d the Brit di Goxernnmnr tlmf the ge'ity parties have been punished. Co'onel AYang. eommanidng the regiment responsible. has been stripped of rank and' imprisoned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1931, Page 5
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