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Show ENGLAND CONCEDES AMERICAN CLAIM' UNITED STATES NOT INVOLVED BY ARRANGEMENTS MADE CONCERNING CON-CERNING COTTON CARGOES. Representatives of American Meat Packers Are Now Attempting to Bring About Release of Ship-; Ship-; ments Valued at MUUons. Washington. A formal statement, designed to clear up misunderstanding misunderstand-ing over the participation by the state department's foreign trade advisers in unofficial arrangements regarding cotton cargoes, was handed the department de-partment on Monday by Sir Cecil-Spring Cecil-Spring Rice, the British ambassador. It says the British government "quite realizes the unofficial arrangements in no way involved the United States government." Representatives of American meat packers who have been protesting for J months against Great Britain's hold-ling hold-ling up of their products shipped to I neutral Kuropean nations conferred j here with their counsel, Alfred Urion, who has been in England since January Janu-ary attempting to. bring about release j of shipments valued at millions of dollars. dol-lars. The state department on Monday announced the receipt of a cablegram from the American ambassador at Berlin as follows: "Foreign office states that it did not intend to leave unanswered the note in the William P. Frye case or to reply re-ply by sending the ship to prize court. A formal reply shortly will be sent. While under the German laws the action of the prize court in issuing issu-ing the motiou is imperative, it remains re-mains totally independent of diplomatic diplo-matic negotiations." |