SHEARER’S ACTIVITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 3 October 1929, Page 5

SHEARER’S ACTIVITIES

. DOCUMENTS SAID TO BE FORGERIES. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 Photographic copies of what purported to be a secret British document was given ; to the Senate investigators by William B. Shearer at the examination into his activities on behalf of American. shipbuilders at the Geneva Naval Limitations Conference. Senator Allen questioned the authen- , ticity of the so-called British paper. Shearer said that the document was signed by Sir William Wiseman, who, he claimed, was head of the British secret service in the United States durLater a telegram from Sii William Wiseman describing the document as <f a clumsy, absurd forgery” wag received by the chairman, Mr Shortridge, ing the war.