Peiping June 12.
Lieut. Cooper returned to Peiping on Saturday afternoon, June 10, after having been held in detention by the Japanese military authorities at Kale kam since May 26, Saturday morning the Japanese spokesman here, when anicing his release, made the cate-erical statement to the Press that Mr. Cooper had. been released on three conditions:—he had promised never again to travel in Japanese con-trolley territory without permission had apologized for having done in this case; he had promised that he would never divulge to any third party, not even to his own government, what he had learnt from Lieut.-
Col. Spear.
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