Show INSULT TO YANKEE DECLARED FALSE Senor Corea Says President of Ni Nicaragua aragua Did Not Mistreat Mistreat Mistreat Mis Mis- treat M Minister in Merry Washington March 1 1 State l-State State department department department de de- de- de officials are aro emphatic In their denials of or reports that President ent Zelaya Zel- Zel Zelaya aya of or Nicaragua forced torce Mr Merry United States minister to Costa Rica and Salva Salvador or out of Nicaragua and offered Q him insults of a serious nature at tho the time of oC Mr Ir Merry's visit to Managua tho the Nicaraguan aguan capital three weeks ago alO It Is a admitted by the tho state department that Mr Merry was waa not able to effect a u. settlement of ot the therell Well Veil claim but the department hano has ha s no knowledge of or any action between betwee sn n Mr 11 Merry lerry and ami President Zelaya As dispatches are received almost almos t dally daily from Mr Merry 1 who la Is now i lr In n Costa Rica the department nt believes believe s It would have havo been Leen fully tully a advised hat ha d there been boon nn any trouble between himself himself himself him him- self and the Nicaraguan president Ident Senor Sonol Conen tho the Nicaraguan uan mm minister min ister called etl on ott Assistant Secretary y Bacon at tho state department to toda today ay y to discuss Central American affairs Ho lie stated sUited positively cl that there had been no friction between n Minister Mer Merry Merry Ier- Ier r ry and President Zelaya f laya such as re reported reported re- re ported portel and an he lie had a dispatch stating staling that Mr 1 Well Veil the lie concessionaire whose case Is 15 supposed to lo have letlo led let to lo Iho tho reported quarrel between the tho president an and minister denied that an any such uch thing had hot ever er happened Guatemala SU Strictly Icily Neutral Toledo the Guatemalan minister has rc received c a dispatch from his government announcing positively oly that Guatemala is strictly neutral In inthe the Central American conflict an and will take lake no part In th lit war whatever At the state department toda today Senor Corea Corca showed Assistant t Secretary Bacon a tele telegram mm from tram the Nicaraguan consul at New Orleans in which he lie said that Samuel Veil Weil whose claim chains against tho time Nicaraguan uan gov government was reported to havo have been tho ha cause causo of a clash between Pre President Zelaya and the tIme United States Slates Minister 1 Merry l had no knowledge of or any such trouble The dispatch follows Samuel Well Vell n resident ent here hero says ho accompanied Minister e In his railroad fit from flom coin lana 1 Managua ua to lo Corinto in lii the thC presidential car gallantly off offered of of- f bred h by President Zelaya Until ho he sailed Mr Merry Ien was the object of full attention rem from Nicaraguan author author- Hies News published In a a. St. St Louts Louis newspaper regarding ln the mistreatment of oC the American minister Is certainly a a. calumny circulated h by enemies of Nicaragua ua to unfavorably Impress s public public public pub pub- lic opinion here |