London, Feb. 16.
Reuter's Agency is informed that the report that the British Govern ment is negotiating with any. other Power with regard to the Geneva protocol is not true.
The British Government cannot define its policy until it knows the: minds of the Dominions. Any suggestions of the Committee of Imperial Defence must be transmitted overseas and the replies of the Governments of the Dominions century, The head was imbedded ten feet in hard clay on the bottom of the Hudson river. Engineers and river experts who have been consulted said it- might have taken 100 or 200 years for the marble to sink to the fdopth at which it was found.
How the piece came to be there is a puzzle which has not been satisfactorily solved. One theory fs that it might have fallen ove board or been thrown from a sailing vessel years ayo. Another is that it'might have remained on the river bed from some maritime wreckage.
The piece was slightly damaged when it was sucked up by the dredge near the mouth of the Hunson and at a spot over which virtually all ships from Europe pass making their piers. The nose] land parts of the ears were broken land the neck and chin were loosen-fed by the fall of the stone into the dredge's hold.
One expert said, however, that despite the battered condition of the head it was the second finest of many marbles of the Roman ruler in existence. Tt is of Carra marble and weights 50 pounds.—Reuter's American Service. received in London.
Meanwhile, the British Govern-int is not discussing the question ith anyone.—Reuter.
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