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Show American Cartoonist Prepared 6,000 Bo! shevik Pamphlets for Soldiers. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28- Robert Mi-inor. Mi-inor. American newspaper cartoonist, who was detained b American mPi-Itai-y authorities in Frame on chars' oi being connec'ted with German Spa'- l a c i 5 1 s to circulate bol?hcvik liter t titre among American troop, was ro-lea ro-lea ed because of Insufficient evidence to Warrant his trial, the senate was Informed In-formed today by Secretary Baker. While recommending the release the Judge-advocate of the A B. F, Mr, 'Baker said, expressed the opinion thtt Minor w.is guilt . Since the release I of the cartoonist, the secretary added, evidence has been obtained connecting fh'm v.lth the prep.nj.ition of 6000 pamphlets pam-phlets which were io be circulated among American soldiers on tbe Rh': Minor ac'ed. ho said, at the request of Meta Philip, a German Spnrtacan leadey Charges against Minor, Who was arrested ar-rested in Paris by British officials and uiiT'd imr t Ihe. American autborl-tlet autborl-tlet vere bbaed, Mr. Baker 'aid, on information in-formation obtained by a non-comrais sioned officer of the military intelli-gencc intelli-gencc servi who was Beni to Mussel dorf to Invent -le plans o i . i la bolshevik literature among the American Amer-ican troops. Upon being arrested Minor male general denial of the charges. "Shortly after Minor wn, released," re-leased," Secretary Baker said in concluding con-cluding hn letter, "important information informa-tion was obtained as to his connet tion with the propaganda pamphlet in question." ques-tion." "An intelligent agent sent to Duv seldorf from Coblenz was told by the head of the concern who actually printed these pamphlets ;hat Minor wuk the man who brought the copy lo him, obtained estimates for the printing print-ing of the same and who actually directed di-rected that they bo printed. ' This information was corroborated by another German in the office ot "he printing establishment In the month of March, an inieili-gence inieili-gence agent who was stationed in Berlin Ber-lin and was supposed to b a SpirU-clst SpirU-clst was told hv Minor that the time was ripe for the spreading of the Spar-tacist Spar-tacist propaganda among the American troops." |