Show PERSHING EXPLAINS I RELEASE OF MINOR Il 11 Washington May 31 General General Pershing Pershing Per- Per shing told the Senate Judiciary committee commit commit- tee today that ho he ha had ordered the rol rolease ro- ro l lease aso of or Robert Minor Inor an American n newspaper man arrested in the occupied occupied pl pied d area of ot Germany on a 8 charge of ot circulating radical propaganda among American troops there Tho The general said he ho had acted on the tho recommendation tion of ot General Genera Bethel judge o advocate of ot the A. A E. E F. F who reported that while he believed Minor guilty guilt an nn officer of ot the army anny intelligence service was the only available witness against him ai an for that reason Jv h- I tho the 5 T r should be liberated |