Show RIDICULE A STATEMENT British Foreign Office Laughs at a St Petersburg Dispatch London April JOlhc ofllclals of the Foreign ofllce here ridicule the statement state-ment made III a dispatch > from St Petersburg published in the Aftehbla det of Stockholm saying the l Czar Is extremely agitated over the Anglo Portuguese arrangement In regard to landing British troops and supplies at Delia and that he Intends to Issue a proclamation protestIng against It In the course of his forthcoming visit to iroao uHksaU10V8tjS110 baslsJcu tho statement thai the Foreign otllce has received lelltrn on tIme subject The British Foreign oflicc ofllclals consider that It is entirely out of time nrovlnce of Russia lo Inlerfere with the AngloPortuguese arrangements The Boer War ofllce evidently regarded the Foreign ofllce here as being In the nalure of a rebellion and quite outside the category of what was provided for by The Hague conference so interven lion of any kind under The Hague convention con-vention regarded I as Impossible |