THE NAVAL DOCUMENT

Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 4

THE NAVAL DOCUMENT

HEARS! SEVERELY CRITICISED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 9. The Paris correspondent of the ‘Morning Post'’ says that there is considerable sympathy with Harold Dora.i, and Mr Hearst is regarded is the grand criminal of the piece. _ It is generally believed that he obtained the document at Geneva, and his conduct is even more inexcusable when it is realised that on his return from Geneva he was welcomed officially by the French Government as an honoured guest, and at the very moment of dining with M. Barthelot at Quai d’Orsay he had in his pocket a document from M. Berthelot’s department to which he had no moral right,, and which he intended to use to the detriment of France in other quarters. It is stated that the document bore the imprint “French section of the League of Nations,” therefore it is held it was not the property of the French Foreign Office, but of the League., It is stated that it had been banded to Mr Hearst at a private luncheon by > high hfficia! of the Quai who it is believed, was hostile to the idea of the naval pact.—Australian Press Association.