HC Deb 25 February 1915 vol 70 cc365-6
3. Sir PHILIP MAGNUS

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Gaston Veitch, born at Bayonne in 1896 and now at school at York, the son of Eng- lish parents, his father having been British Consul at Réunion, is liable to be called up as a conscript in the French Army, and has received a summons to return to France this month; and whether he is eligible to join, as he now wishes, the English Army, for which he has been for some time in training?

Sir E. GREY

The case referred to has not been brought to my notice, but if the facts are represented to me I shall be happy to consider whether His Majesty's Government could properly take any action in the matter.