Deseret Evening News | 1900-02-20 | Page 4 | There Are Others

of of l False hool Fb 19 dispatch from trl that 11 re declared lt Iii tie Senate that to the war with the United States the British government con seated to let SPain hll hare shells whIch Were beIng for her herat herat at the tho MaIm Maxim factor at Placentia insets with vigorous denial In London Albert Ickers head of the Maxim firm said Senor SIela le lied There Is not n a word of truth In thi this allegation that England helped Spain to t fight ht the UnIted Stat States In the frt first place the factory ot at Placentia I is a a branch of our concern buIt built at the reo re request quest ot of Spain because that country wanted ante uTe ure I It tinder the Spanish h govern moots control and there never wn was a ashell shell therl there fur tor sale In or In an any country except Spain where 1 a law allt the export of ammunition exists Senor Is further quoted as AI assaying saying that SpaIn not used the shells alo allowed them to be use returned to the and that an he did not consider the latter step a of at neutrality This Dials lon Mr Vickers al also o denied Inquiries made at the foreIgn office Rho show that n no pape paper exist dealing with any such luch transaction lint Dut Lor Lord Salts bur bury tole took the mater matter up personally instituting In the various de department wih with n a view ot of issuing a denial hould It 0 be Nove proved that Senor has been corel correctly quote quoted These The inquiries of the premier reo re suie suited In I an statement being made to the effect that hat the British government never ner entered Into ty any such Ruch transactIon and I it the Vickers Maxim company undertook I It the con can cancer concern cern did so FO the knowledge of the tho government