British Military Attache Describes Journey to Kalgan; Sailing for Home Via U.S. Next Week Shanghai, Oct, 22.
OOKING exceptionally fit in spite of his recent gruelling ordeal of fifteen weeks imprisonment by the Japanese army in Kalgan, Lieut ~Col, C. R. Spear, H, M, Military Attache arrived in Shanghai in the s. Shengking yesterday morning.
Colonel Spear will remain here for a week as he is sailing for home via the United States in the President Cleveland next Sunday.
During an informal chat with local newsmen, Col. Spear, whose trip overland from Chungking 0 Kalgan reads' like the script of fan exciting cinema adventure, revealed some details of his famous journey which ended with the capture by the Japanese military. As he leaned back in an easy chair ith the inevitable pipe between' his teeth the keen-eyed, husky, British army officer nonchalantly described his arduous odyssey—he might well have been recounting, a walk from Nanking Road to th
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