During his confinement at Kalgan the Colonel became ill three times. He was attended by Japanese army Here a Sikh constable directed trate doctors who he describes as "not bad without any interference from the chaps." The only part of his con-invading force, finement which he did not particularly Rumours of another serious inelrelish was the nightly questioning by dent spread like wildfire throughout the Japanese army officers. the disputed area in the afternoon "Did they give you the third of the degree?" a reporter asked him. were "Well, no, T wouldn't call it that," he smiled, "but they picked on unusual hours for their questioning, hemmering questions at me from 10 o'clock in the night until 3 a.m." cups ing the proposed trial by a Japanese Asked if he knew anything regard-fends Ching-wei's party at Lane|did not materialize, Col. Spear replied court-martial, which trial, incidentally, 1196, Jesafeld Road. After the feast that he had heard nothing whatever Col. Spear is no stranger to hardship and danger. He spent two years in that troublesome spot of the British Empire, the North-West frontier of India. This is his third tour of duty in China and he has seen a great deal of action in here. "I like China," he said then, ruefully, "but I always seem to run into trouble out here, the last time I was here (1927) I was wounded."
Colonel Spear is sailing for San Francisco in the s. President Cleveland next Sunday. He plans to spend about two weeks in the United States before going on to England. "I have a letter of introduction to Anna May Wong," he acknowledged, "so it seems a shame not to visit Hollywood." He is going home on sick leave, but does not know whether he will be reassigned to duty with the British Embassy in China or ordered to France.
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