CANADIAN CELEBRATIONS.
ATTENDED BY PRESIDEN'/ TAFT. A TACTFUL SPEECH. By Telegraph.— l'ress Association.— Copyright. NEW YORK, 9th July. President Taft visited Plattsburg (on the United States shore of Lake Champlain) in connection with the Canadian Tercentenary celebrations. He reviewed Grey's Footguards and the Fifth Royal Canadian Highlanders. At a banquet held subsequently, 'the President remarked that the Canadians . are a people who are destined to be great and prosperous, and of whose prosperity and greatness Americans are great enough not to be jealous, but to welcome it. The speakers included Mr. R. Lomieux (Canadian Postmaster-General and Minister for Labour) and tho Hon. Jas. Bryce (British Ambassador lo the United 'States). HUDSON TERCENTENARY. CONTINGENT OiTbRITISH WARSHIPS. LONDON, 9th July. The New York correspondent of the Daily Tuail states that the British armoured cruisers Drake (14,100 tons), Argyll (10,850 tons), Duke of Edinburgh (13,550 tons), and Black Prince (13,550 tons), will attend the Hudson Tercentenary in New York in September next.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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