There was no doubt in the minds of the British Embassy" authorities that the mysterious foreigner must be It-Col. Spear. And on the afternoon of June 1, Br. L. 1. Lamb, Assistant Chinese Secretary, and Major Dalamaine of the British garrison in Tientsin, having after some delay obtained from Japanese Headquarters the necessary permits, left for Kalgan, order to try and got into touch with Colonel Spear, and also to try and find out what had become of Lit. Cooper, from whom they had had no word since he left.
On the Ist the Japanese military spokesman practically admitted that the arrested foreigner was the British lary Attache, He gave as. the reason for his arrest that the cireum=
Stances tinder which he had arrived inthe Japanese lines were highly peculiar and. that the Japanese had every Fight to treat such a perso 28 a suspicious character, (It should be mentioned that, as far known, It-Col. Spear had his passport with him.) The spokesman Sdlded that the case was a highly complicated one and that the Japanese military "Headquarters in Peiping, were sil waiting for the official Feport of the case.
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