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Show LO.YDOX. Feb. ix 4 p. m,with rc gard to the denial of the statement thai i.Jermany was seeking to convey to the I lined States her willingness to refrain from applying the declaration of January : 31 to the shipping of that countrv In the hope of maintaining peace with the United States, the German newspapers, according to a dispatch from Copenha-en to the 10x change Telegraph eompanv, aav th.at Swilze! land, at the request of Germany, Ger-many, asked the lAnited States government govern-ment whether it still accepted the Amerl-can-Prussi.m agreement of 17;fl,. according to which treaty German subjects in the I'nited States and American citizens in Germany should be aliowed to return to llu-ir respective countries. It was merelv this ropiest to Washington, sa v the German Ger-man newrrapers. that ga'.e rise to rumors ru-mors of turtiier peace negotiations. |