ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13161, 7 July 1908, Page 9

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

! HOW PENNY POSTAGE WAS ! OBTAINED. i AN INTERESTING REVELATION.; ■United Pro«« Asu-nciation—Bv Eiectrie | T.-ojrraph—Copyi.ght. I .Received July oth, 11.25 p.m.) ' "l/OXDQX, July 6. j Independence Day was a .ebrated in ■ America and Great Britain with the ■ customary cordiality an<i enthusiasm. ! .Mr Whitekrw Reid. the American Am-; bas*ador, spe_ikiny at tiie American .■society's Ut liquet at the Hotel Cecil, , referred to the far-reaching and bene- ' ficent reform of penny postage 1 >otweon j Great Britain and Amerioa. He 00m- ' plimented Mr Honuikcr-Heaton and . Ivortl Blyth as worthy followers of Row- j land Hill. Their success would give an ! enormous .stimulus to the grouing in- ; lotcourse and intimacy between tlie! t v.> (Oii.'itrii -. No greater service could , he rendi'i.d to civilisation. 1

.Mr H_.M!iker-Jle,toti thanked Mr Reid I'-or.liL. high eulogism. lie described t-n- drama! Ie .scene which occurred a IViv weeks since at Dorchester

Ho-iiv when lie and Lord Blyth appeal. .1 to .Mr it---id to come to their aid and obtain Anglo-American penny jxistage. Mr Reid complied, and wiihiu 21 lieur.. the two great English-speaking nations secured tho boon. Mr Ilea ton mi id ho was a'xvtt to .submit to the nations a pr<>|x>-«_l for penny-a-word telegrams throughout the civilis-'d world. Then the div_n_- gift of electricity would no longer bo for the millionaires, but tor the millions.