BRITISH DELEGATES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 11

BRITISH DELEGATES

MACDONALD'S OUTLINE

VENUE AND AGENDA

British Official Wireless.

(Received 3rd December, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, 2nd December,

Tho Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that the British delegates to the London Naval Conference which will open on 21st January would be himself, tho Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Henderson, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Alexander, and the Secretary for India, Captain Wedgwood Benn. The British Government had communicated with the Governments of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and the Government of India, who had been invited to nominate delegates. He was not yet in a position to make a statement as to the names of their delegates nor to give the names of the naval advisers who would assist in technical matters, but those would include the Chief and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff. He added that the King had given permission for the use of the Royal Gallery at tho Palace of WMtminsto for the opening of tho primary meeting and of St. James's Palace for subsequent meetings of the Conference. Questioned regarding the agenda, the Prime Minister said that the subject on the agenda would be how best the Five Powers represented at the Conference could agree on the reduction and limitation of war vessels on a basis of mutually accepted strength. The question of procedure to bo adopted at the Conference was a matter for discussion between the Governments of the countries concerned and for a decision by the Conference itself.