REPORTED SAFE
BRITISH OFFICERS HELD BY JAPANESE. EMBASSY INFORMATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) PEKING, June 4. The British Embassy has been informed from Kalgan of the safety of Colonel Spear and Lieutenant Cooper.
A message from Hong Kong on June 1 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-Ja-panese lines from South China. Brit-; ish circles were of opinion (it was added) that he was probably LieutenantColonel C. R. Spear, a military attache to the British Embassy in China, who was. reported to be missing. Lieutenant Cooper, a British officer who had gone to Kalgan, to investigate the disappearance of Lieutenant Colonel Spear, had Yot reported since May 28.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1939, Page 6
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