Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 2 | Spain is Trying to Reach Agreement

ii is trig'to REACHJGREEMENT Marquis de Alhucemas, the Premier, Says He Is Satisfied Sat-isfied With Prospects. MADRID, Friday, Feb. 1. Marquis de Alhucemaa, the Spanish premier, today said he was well satisfied with the progress prog-ress of the negotiations between Spain and the United states. The United States is represented by Major Belmont and Major Brown. Spain's representatives are Senor Urquljo, a banker; Senor Garnica, undersecretary of finance, and Senor Pina, former Spanish minister to Washington. Wash-ington. They have been discussing commercial com-mercial arrangements between the two countries. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. The foregoing 'dispatch discloses for the first time that negotiations are going on between the United States and Spain to determine what character of exports shall be permitted per-mitted to go to that nation in return for certain Spanish materials the government govern-ment wishes to buy for the American troops in France. It also seems to disclose dis-close why officials here yesterday made formal denials of the report that the war trade board was refusing to license any exports whatever to Spain.- Some sort of an agreement such as has been made with other European neutrals is in prospect.