BRITISH OFFICERS
HELD BY JAPANESE. REPRESENTATIONS TO SECURE RELEASE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. It is understood that the Government has macle representations to secure the release of Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Spears. The British Embassy at Peking fears that the Japanese have also arrested and are holding in solitary confinement a British language officer, Lieutenant Cooper, who went to Lakgan to investigate the Spears incident and has not reported since May 28. A message from Hong Kong yesterday stated that the Japanese had'arrested an unknown foreigner, wearing shabby dress, in a Christian church at Kalgan. They refused to disclose his name and said he claimed to be an attache who had crossed the Sino-Jap-anese lines from South China. British circles are of opinion (it was added) that he is probably LieutenantColonel C. R. Spears, a military attache to the British Embassy in China, who is reported to be missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1939, Page 6
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