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Show DISCTJSSINO NEW MODUS . VIVEUTDI WITH GERMANY. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. Secretary Root is in conference with Secretary Shaw and some of the customs officers of the treasury endeavoring to ascertain bow far he can go toward proposing the basis of a feasible modus Vivendi to the German Government. At the expiration of seventy-one days the present trading relations with Germany Ger-many will terminate according to the terms of the denunciation already given, unless either a new treaty can be arranged ar-ranged or a modus Vivendi provided. |