AMERICA’S BIG NAVY.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17837, 9 October 1929, Page 5

AMERICA’S BIG NAVY.

EFFORTS AT BRIBERY. BRITISH GENERAL APPROACHED AN UNCEREMONIOUS EXIT. ,8y Telegrapt)—Press Assn. —coDvngtn.) (Australian Press Association.! LONDON, Oct. 7. The Daily Chronicle says BrigadierGeneral F. P. Crozier, in an interview, asserts that a mysterious American who called himself Sherman attempted to bribe 'him to stir up enmity between Britain and America on the big navy question. "Was Sherman the notorious William B. Shearer, whose activities at the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927 are now being Investigated by a committee of the United States senate, as General Crozier believes?” asks the Chronicle. General Crozier says he recobnises a photograph of Shearer as that of the man who called at his (the general's) flat in London in 1927. The man had been making anti-war and proAmerican speeches. The caller offered lo 'pay well, if General Crozier would stop proposing a reduction of armaments. Later another American, who said he knew Sherman, called on General Crozier with a similar proposal, this man suggesting that the general would be well paid for a lecture tour in America if lie would advocate the rights of Britain and the United States to possess navies as large as they wanted. General Crozier says he kicked the second American down the stairs.