NAVAL LIMITATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 256, 27 September 1929, Page 7

NAVAL LIMITATION

BRITAIN'S- EFFORT,

PRIME MINISTER’S MISSION. LEAVING LONDON TO-DAY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received September 27, 11.30 a.m, RUGBY, Sept. 26. During Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s absence in tho United States, Mr Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will deputise as Prime Minister. Mr MacDonald and his small party will leave London to-morrow evening and will return, according to present arrangements, during the first few days of November. Consequently, when Parliament reassembles on October 29, Mr Snowden will lead the Government in the House of Commons. General Dawes, the American Ambassador, called upon the Prime Minister at Downing Street, to-day and remained with him for considerably over an hour. It is understood that Mr MacDonald and the Ambassador had a final conversation regarding the mission to the United States. BIG NAVY PROPAGANDA. senate~lnquiry. SHEARER'S ALLEGED ACTIVITIES (Australian Press Association. —United Service.) Received September 27, 10 a.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. The Senate committee investigating the allegations that American shipbuilding concerns have worked for big navies heard further evidence to-day. Mr Drew Pearson, a newspaper correspondent at the 1927 Geneva Conference. told the committee that William Sliearer, the observer for American shipbuilders at the conference at Geneva, appeared to be the real influence against goodwill between Britain and America and was with naval experts on many occasions.