Mr G. A. Smith was released unconditionally at 10 o'clock this morning. No light has hitherto been thrown on the circumstances leading up to his arrest. Mr. Smith, when interviewed by Reuter today, stated that he spent his first day or two in a terrible vermin-infested room with Chinese criminals of the lowest order, and had to subsist on Chinese food, which he was permitted to buy. Later he was placed in a more tolerable place and permitted to buy foreign food.
He looked much the worse for his ordeal and was rather shaky, but was able to get about town. Before they released him this morning, the Japanese forced Mr. Smith to sign an apology for what he had done on June 17.
There was a drastic reduction today in Tientsin's milk supply. This particularly affected the British Municipal Hospital, where some patients on milk diet are in a very serious position. Arrangements, it is understood, are being made for shipping fresh foodstuffs from Shanghai.
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