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Oral Answers to Questions — Mexico (British Subject Kidnapped).

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 13 March 1929.

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Photo of Mr Harry Day Mr Harry Day , Southwark Central

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asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his Department has received any notifications through the State Department at Washington of the occurrence in which Mr. J. W. Reid, a British subject, has been captured by Mexicans and insurgents in Mexico and is being held to ransom; and can he give particulars?

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