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Show RELEASE OF MINOR ORDERED BY PERSHING WASHINGTON, Hay 31. General Pershing told tho senate judiciary committee today that he had ordered the release of -Robert Minor, an Amcr-lean Amcr-lean newspaper man, arrested In tho occupied territory of Germany, on a charge of circulating radical propa-ganda propa-ganda among American troops there. Tho general said he had acted on tho recommendation of General Bethel, judge advocate of the A. E. F., who re-ported re-ported that while he believed Minor guilty, an officer of tno army intclll-gense intclll-gense service was the only available witness against him, and for that rea- fl son he thought the prisoner should be liberated. |