A GERMAN DIPLOMAT.
KAISER AND PRESIDENT CONCUR. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYMGUT.) Berlin, August 25. ■In connection with the death at 1 Heidelberg of Baron Speck vou Sternburg, formerly German Ambassador to AYashington, tho Kaiser's message of condolence to Baron Sternburg's brother says:"l sincerely mourn a splendid ambassador. His services to tho Fatherland ensure him ijiy gratitude beyond the grave."
A MODEL AMBASSADOR. (Rec. August 26, 10.40 p.m.) New York, August 26. President Roosevelt has telegraphed to the German Charge d'Affaires: "I am shocked and grieved at the death of Baron Sternburg. He was not only my intimate personal friend and one of the most fearless, sincere," and loyal men I have ever met, but as a diplomatist of signal ability he served Germany with fervent patriotism, yet showed such intelligent goodwill to America that it would be difficult to overestimate the value of the work that he did in strengthening and bringing closer the ties of friendship between the two countries. I mourn his loss for my cjwn sako deeply,,'and I regret" it for the sako of the people of tho United States."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 286, 27 August 1908, Page 7
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183A GERMAN DIPLOMAT. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 286, 27 August 1908, Page 7
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