HUGE DELEGATION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 9

HUGE DELEGATION

EARNEST ENDEAVOUR

TO MAKE IT A SUCCESS

British Official Wirelcs?.

(Received ISth January, 11 a.m.

11UGBY, 17 th January,

Messrs. Stimson (Secretary of State), Adams (Secretary of the Navy), and Morrow (United States Ambassador in Mexico, and Senators Robinson and Reed, United States delegates to the Naval Conference, reached Plymouth this morning and were welcomed at the quayside by General Dawes, American Ambassador, who is himself one of the delegates, the Mayor, and other civic diguatorics of Plymouth, and Admiral Sir Hubert Brand.

Before the delegates entrained there was a short exchange of greetings, during which Mr. Stimson said that he and his colleagues had come full of high hopes and an earnest endeavour to make the Conference a success. All the delegates expressed keen satisfaction that tho King was now suilicently well to honour the delegations by addressing them at Tuesday's opening meoting.

Accompanying the American delegates was a staff of nearly 100 experts, secretaries, and typists, and it is estimated that, including tho special Press correspondents, approximately 1000 peoplo are coming to London from different parts of tho world in connection with tho Conference proceedings.

Members of the Italian delegation arrive to-day and to-morrow, and the French delegates to-morrow and Sunday. All will huvo arrived by Monday, when in the afternoon the chief delegates will meet at 10, Downing Street, to decide details of procedure and other preliminaries.