§ SIR W. EVANS GORDON (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the case of Mr. J. E. Geddes, a British subject, who is alleged to have been imprisoned and maltreated by the Russian military and civil authorities in Manchuria, has been brought to his notice; whether any representations and claims for compensation have been made to the Russian Government; and, if so, whether any reply has been received.
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RUNCIMAN,For Sir E. Grey) Dewsbury;The case of Mr. Geddes has been brought to the notice of His Majesty's Government and they are in communication with the Russian Government on the subject, who are making inquiries from their own officers concerned as to the facts. There is reason to believe that until recently the person in question spelt his name 84 as Guedes and that he is of Portuguese extraction.
§ SIR W. EVANS-GORDONIs there any evidence to show that Mr. Geddes is not a British subject?
§ MR. RUNCIMANI understand that he is a British subject now.