BIG NAVY PROPAGANDA SCANDAL TO BE SIFTED

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7013, 12 September 1929, Page 7

BIG NAVY PROPAGANDA SCANDAL TO BE SIFTED

Conspiracy Against State STEEL CORPORATION ADMITS IMPLICATION BRITAIN’S NEW OFFER. Australian Press Association. Received Wednesday, 7.20 p.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.

To-day’s developments in the naval propaganda incident was another statement by President Hoover: “Disclosures of interference with and propaganda against the efforts of the Government in negotiating an international agreement- for a reduction of naval armaments ■ arc already so evident as to require those matters to be gone into to the very bottom,” and a letter sent to the President by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, t-hat it. in conjunction with other shipbuilding companies, had employed Shearer. Tho Senate Naval Commission adopted a resolution calling for an inquiry. Senator Borah, who urged an investigation, said: “Here aro private shipbuilding companies, employing men secretly to break clown a conference for naval disarmament. It is nothing less than scandalous and amounts to conspiracy against tho people of the United States and tho Government.”

Hints and Surmises CRUISER ISSUE IN NAVAL NEGOTIATIONS. Australian Press Association. LONDON, Sept. 10. Official circles decline to comment on the progress of the Anglo-American naval negotiations until America replies to Britain’s proposals. There are hints, howover, that it is correct that Britain offered to Limit her aggregate cruisers to 340,000 tons, leaving the United States something between 295,000 and 305,000. It is denied that Britain officially protested against W. B. Shearer’s propaganda activities at the Geneva Naval Conference.