Show NO MO WITH CHINA I NAVAL AND WAR WAB OFFICIALS DENY RuMoRS OF OP IT Snips s Have Noi d Seen een L Sent to China Because Be ause of Diffin Difficulties I ties There Washington n n March h IS In official and ars I diplomatic circles here a denial is au an authorized of published reports that there then i have haie bOOn been conferences with a view to P PI the dispatch of additional war ships and aud an ant I United States soldierS to China and that thai t news of or the gravest gre t character has been hem received from the United States Stats minister to China There is said to be no fear fe r en entertained entertained that any serious danger to American merican interests is Impending ending It is suggested that the pUblished re reports reports reports ports have as their basis the recent ac action action action tion of the navy department made pub public nc tic at the time through the Associated A Press in directing Admiral Watson who is In command of the time naval forces in the Philippines to send sen a warship to the port porto of Taku at the mouth of the P iho river This was ros done as a result of the representations made to the state de do department department by Minister Conger who re reported reported reported ported that serious attacks bad had been made upon the American missions in Ia inShan Shan Shau Tung by the Boxers a powerful and numerous league of Chinese Secretary Long said tonight that this was all that had bad been done by bythe bythe bythe the navy nn department and aad he was not yet et aware which of his lila vesse the ad I had decided to send to the Chinese I port The secretary further denied d nied em emphatically emphatIcally the correctness s of the pub publication j cation so far as the navy department was and added that there had bad been 10 no l o conferences such as were reported as having taken place on the subject Act ActIng Acting Ing lag Secretary of the war de department department department was as emphatic in denying the accuracy of or the publications f ns as affecting his department as Secretary Long was regarding the time navy Mr Ur ape specifically s stated that there had been no conference with Assistant Secretary Hill Hillas Hillas as to the number of troops that t could be spared pored from the Philippines for service in China Cl na Ambassador von Ton Holleben of Germany German who name namo is also identified with the publication atlon was about to go out to o keep an engagement as a reporter met him mm at atthe atthe atthe the door of the embassy this evening He acknowledged that he had seen the see sec secretary rotary of state recently but said that Chinese affairs were not the subject of their conversation |