Peiping, June 2.
'The arrest of the British Military Allache, It-Col. C. R. Spear, me, by the' Japanese military:
authorities on his arrival in their lines after his long trek across China from Chungking has excited considerable comment here. The facts, us far they are known to date ore roughly Some time ago the British Embassy authorities here were advised that they might expect at any time the arrival of Colonel Spear who hod eft Chungking about two months aK0 and. was travelling overland to North China through Chinese-con-{rolled territory, It seems that when Col, Spear arrived in the Western Wills, which is guerilla territory, he yot within less than ten miles Mentowkov, the first Japanese post west of Peiping, but had to turn back as fighting was going on between the Japanese and "the" guerillas, He managed, however, to yet a message through to the effect that he would In consequence have to come out a different route, Lo. considerably further north, somewhere on the Peking-Kalgan railway. On Moy 25, It. Cooper, " language oticer attached the Embassy was, therefore, sent along the line to' ury and contact COL 'Spear. 'Before leaving, It Cooper' called on the Supanose military authorities in Peiping and asked for a pass both for himself for Col. Spear. The former, he was told, would take some time, while the latter was refused out of liliand, with the "remark that the
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