The Archive · 1939

Aged Belgian Nobleman Released in Tokyo

Tokyo, July 13.

Arrested on April 20,' soon after hig return from. Shanghai, as the Japanese police launched a campaign gainst foreigners alleged to have wlolated currency laws, Baron Marcel Baeyens, aged Belgian nobleman, was a free man again today.

'He was quietly released on Satur-Gey following an understanding of undisclosed character with the Judicial authorities. Baron Baeyens case, it" was understood, went into the hands of the Procurators' Ome, where a settlement was effected. Baron Baeyens ie the father of Baron James Baeyens, now secretary of the French Embassy in Washington. He feame here four years ago. to visit hhis son who was then stationed in Tokyo.

Father Raphael Collard who was taken into custody on April 18 on similar charges has been allowed to enter the Catholic Hospital. Judicial authorities decline to state how far his case has progressed. Father Collard, who came {o Japan about six years ago, has been in poor health for several He spent several months in the Catholic Hospital in the various diplomatic questions that had arisen since he had assumed the Foreign portfolio in October.

""T should like to take a week end trip in August when the conversations will be over," he remarked—Domel,

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