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Show The I'nited States Not In It. Washington, Oct. 14. It is said at the state department that the report from Shanghai that the foreign ministers have closed negotiations with the Chinese government govern-ment cannot be true so far as the representatives representa-tives of this government is concerned, for the reason that no instructions of that character char-acter have been issued by the president, and the acting minister , would hardly presume to take such an important step in the absence ab-sence of positive instructions. |