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REASON FOR DETENTION. <% STATEMENT FROM BELGIUM. A MISTAKEN BELIEF. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Jan. 15. A message from Brussels says the temporary detention at Ostcnd of Mr J. Maxton, Labour M.P. for Bridgeton, (Glasgow; Mr S. Saklatvala, Communist M.P. for Battersea North; and Mr Bridgeman, secretary of the League Against Imperialism, was due to the belief .that they were on the way to attend a meeting of the AntiColonial League, which, by a strange coincidence, was to be held a Brussels at the same time as the conference of the League Against Imperialism which they w-ere in reality to attend at Cologne.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17612, 17 January 1929, Page 8
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