19 AUGUST 1955, Page 7

`DISMISS all the stories of American Service men being tortured

by the Chinese,' said the Daily Worker's diplomatic correspondent on Monday. His authority for this was the Washington Post. But the WP as quoted by him said that few prisoners in China had been tortured. The difference between no torture and just a few tortures is doubtless negligible to the Communist mind. But I am surprised that the Worker should be so frank about it. PHAROS