DEBATE IN COMMONS.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 65, 17 March 1928, Page 9

DEBATE IN COMMONS.

CIOVERNMENT CRITICISED (A.P.A. and "Sun.") LONDON, loth March. / The debate on the Navy Estimates ] was continued in the House of Commons. . . ■ ■ Mr. L. M'Neill "veir (Lab.) urged the Government to initiate proposals for an international agreement to abolish capital ships and submarines and reduce cruisers to the sizo necessary for police purposes. . Mr. C. P. Trevelyan (Lab.) said an Anglo-American armament race was now threatened. The most important American, document since the late .President Wilson's declaration of war was Mr. Kellogg's'^ippeal to the world for a treaty renouncing war.' If Britain led tho way to disarmament other Pdwers would follow. •-■.•■•...,.'■ Mr. W. C. Bridg'eman, replying, said it was a great mistake that the Washington Conference had fixed the size of the largest cruisers as high as 10,000 tons. If a lower figure had been fixed there would have been much less trouble.. Commander Kenworthy protested against the Admiralty assisting in making so-called war films, such as the Battle of Coronel.' This '.'play-acting tomfoolery" was a prostitution of the King's uniform for the purpose of making propaganda fihnu.The vote was agreed to.