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PEACE RUN0l} ARE MANY
Continued Talk of Negotiations for
Ending the Spanish-Ameri-
can War.
goTHIRG DEFINITE KA5Wa, HOWEVER.
Stories That Spain Is Negotiating
Through british Ambassadors Mt
Mndrid Are Ec,iea in London as
Absolutely False .Autho ritative
Statement of state Department..


Statement of state Department..
London, July 9.-Although peace
rumors are numerous and there is a
general feeling that Spain may at any
moment sue lcr peace, nothing def
mite on the subject is known in com
petent quarters. Both the officials of
the United States embassy and the
British foreign Office say the situation
is the same as Friday and at the for
eign office it is declared that there is
absolutely no truth in the story print
ed Saturday morning by New York
paper to the effect that Spain has
made informal overtures for peace
with the United States through Sir
Henry Drummond Wolfe, the British
ambassador at Madrid. and they ridi-
Guile the alleged concessions attrib-
uted to Spain in the story referred to.
Not willing to Interfere.
Madrid, July 9.--According to the
newspapers here, the Spanish minis
ter of foreign affairs, Duke Almov-
ovar de Rio, has declared that no Eu-
ropean power is disposed to intervene
in behalf of peace unless the belliger-
ents make a request to that effect.
Many Rumors.
Washington, July 9.-The belief
that a peace movement will be in
augurated continues strong, but the
definite announcement is made that
no such movement has taken form
thus far.
The state department again Satur-
day authoritativelS stated that no
peace overtures, direct of indirect,
official or unofficial, had been sub
mitted to this government.
AT the same time similar statements
came from authorized sources at It'll tie
British French German and other
Embassies and legations. 1t is stated
broadly in these official quarters that
whatever may be the hope or eNpecta-
ton of Spain toward peace the mat
ter thus far is confined entirely to
the other side of the water and has
taken no form either before the au-
thorities here, or before the foreign
representatives of those powers which
would be likely to speak in the event
of peace movement. In view of this
condition officials are surprised at
the explicit reports that one power or
another has already taken the in
itiative, on some branch or other of
the present conflict. One report was
to the effect that the German ambas-
II Pps l,,S n lodi
together at the state department Fri
day, the inference being that they
had an important mission relative to
the Philippines. Neither the Russian
ambassador nor the German ambassa-
dor was in Washington Friday. DR..
Won Hollenben, the German, being in
New York. and Count Cassini, the
Russian, nj Narragansett Pier. The
first secretary of the German EN-
bassy, Baron Speck Won Sternburg,
called Friday and Saturday, his Wis
its being frequent, but with authority
the statement is made that his calls
had-no reference whatever to the sub
ject of peace or the Philippine islands.
Is Unaccountnble.
1t is regarded us unaccountable that
reports of such Importance should be
published when both ambassadors are
away and no action of the character
stated is on foot. Another report
states that Great Britain is moving,
one version being that Sir Julian
Pauncefote has ade ogeiti,res to the
president; another that Sir Drum
mond-Wolffe, the British ambassador
at Madrid, has received the Spanish
proposition and has transmitted it to
the United States ambassadors. Mr.,
Hay, at London. AS to Sir Julian
Pamcefote, the ambassador himself
authorizes the most explicit and
sweeping denial. He has not seen
the president for a month, and he has
not approached any official of this
government, officially or unofficially,
on the subject of peace. AS to Sir
Drummond-Wolffe, there is no means
here of knowing what he has done at
Madrid, but the officials here, govern
ment and diplomatic, dismiss this re-
port in view of the well established
facts here
Not Anticipating Any Such Move.
The state department has received no
such proposition from Ambassador
Hay, and it would be advised at once if
anything of this nature had come
through Sir Drummond-Wolf or any
other source. That Sir Julian Paunce-
tote Is not experimenting any such move
ment on the part of Great Britain is in
dicated by his departure Saturday for
Pequot, Conn.,, for the summer. He had
remained not because of the war, but
because the new treaty of reciprocity
relating to the British West Indies had
advanced to stage where only two or
three minor points remained open.
With the adjournment of congress, the
senate was not here TO ratify the treaty,
even II completed, SO there is no further
urgent demand for his presence in
Washington. The treaty goes over
probably until autumn.
While making it clearly understood
that no peace movement whatever has
been inaugurated, the officials continue
to believe that some movement may as
sumo definite form at any moment
Such movement would be of such SUI
preme Importance that officials depre-
cate the reports that it has actually oc-
cured
Gives Us Many Vessels
San Francisco, July 0. = The annexa-
ton of the Hawaiian islands 10 t},a