SPERRY'S FAREWELL
LEAVES FOR MANILA. HIS LAST WORD TO AUSTRALIA. A GREAT FUTURE. (DT TEI.EGUAPH —PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPrTUGET.; (Rec. Scptoinbor IS, 0.10 a.m.) Albany, Soptomber 17. The United States Fleet lias sailed for Manila. Admiral Sporry, in a farewell message to Australia, said ho desired to minglo with his unqualified thanks to the people of Australia a confirmed admiration of their island continent, and a hopo that it would bo permitted to continue in peace its beneficent work of development. " When that is completed," the Admiral adds, " who shall compute the national impor.tanco of Australia —tho Empire's Queen Daughter of the Southern Seas I"
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 305, 18 September 1908, Page 7
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103SPERRY'S FAREWELL Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 305, 18 September 1908, Page 7
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