NAVAL ENQUIRY

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1929, Page 5

NAVAL ENQUIRY

SHEARER’S EVIDENCE. ; United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) Washington, September 30. Shearer was before the Senate Committee to-day. He said no member of the American delegation had wished to see the parley end in failure and he did not claim lie had broken up the gathering. “Do you know of any one of our representatives who worked against arriving at any agreement ?” asked Chairman Shortridge. “ Only one, and he introduced a political clause which was for a naval building holiday,” Shearer answered, without giving the person’s name. Shearer said he himself was 'for the American programme foif a parity with the British navy and that if he had not been, he would have been with the British who wanted 750,000 tons of cruisers. He agreed with Shortridge that lie used his brains and ability to get out the facts. Shearer said he also used one other thing, and that was naval intelligence data, giving the proposed plans of Britain and Japan of what they would attempt to do at the conference, and what they did do.