Col Spear was imprisoned for bee weeks by the Japanese, thirteen of those weeks having been spent in the grim silence of solitary confinement. It will be recalled that he was offered the privilege of exercise, but lonly while being escorted by an armed guard of Japanese soldiers. As this procedure is decidedly against the Kings Regulations governing the conduct of commissioned officers in His Majesty's Service, Col. Spear declined to take advantage of exercising under those conditions.
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