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Show No Britishers In the Contract. Washington, April 2. The attention of Secretary Whitney was yesterday called to the cabled report that the London Daily News has demanded of the British Government Govern-ment an explanation of the statement printed print-ed in New York that British contractors and officers are interested financially in the construction con-struction of the new vessels to be built for the American navy, and the News bases its demand upon the statement in tho New York papers that these vessels, were to be designed by a syndicate of wh.ch Sir Nathaniel Na-thaniel BarnLby, ex-Chief of Construction of the Britisn navy, Mr. White, the present Chief Constructor, and the firm of Sir William Wil-liam Armstrong & Co., are the principal members. The Secretary said that there was no truth in the statement. |