Show BRYAN DENIES STORY Y declares england did not oppose ship purchase plan washington Diplo diplomatic matle phases af 9 tho the proposed purchase of ships by the united states government were widely discussed saturday as aa tho the result othe publication of a report that sir hdward the stat department that such purposes if including german or Auk austrian trian ships would ho bo regarded as constituting an act it was stated positively at tho the state department ns as well as the british embassy that no communication official or otherwise on oil the subject had been received from sir edward not only on has tho the american government not lot asked nor received the formal views of great britain but no of an official character have come from either or france |