Show SPAIN SEEPS SULU Island Not in tho Boundary Lines Laid Down by Treaty Washington Feb 21Upon representations represen-tations of tho Spanish Government to tIme effect that some of the Islands south of the Philippine archipelago which had been taken possession of by United States gunboats were really the properly prop-erly of Spain the authorities of the State department have examined the charts and concluded to direct the withdrawal with-drawal of our claims to the Islands of Caygayen Sulu and Clbutu all of which lie without the boundary lumen laid down by the treaty t of Paris |