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Foreign Office Pleads Ignorance

British officials sidestep questions about a diplomatic ultimatum to Nicaragua, a minor but telling episode in Britain's gunboat diplomacy of the 1890s.

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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Page 1

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LONDON, April 20.

The officials of the British foreign office declare they know nothing of the letter alleged to be the reply of the Earl of Kimberley to the answer of the foreign minister of Nicaragua to the ultimatum of Great Britain. The Exchange Telegraph company asserts the British Foreign Office is still occupied with Nicaragua's reply and that steps would already have been taken to press home our ultimatum if it had not been ascertained that the British demand was delayed in transmission.

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