GREETING TO THE PRESIDENT.
SYDNEY, August 24. ,. .Lord Nortti£ote has sent the following message to President Roosevelt : — Thursday, August 20. The Australians, who .in hundreds of thousands are gathered on the shores of Sydney Harbour to welcome the battleship fleet of the United States, which at this moment is entering the eastern gateway of this continent, unite in cordial greetings to President Roosevelt. The people of the Commonwealth gratefully appreciate the generous response to their invitation by the President and" citizens of the great Repiiblic, and rejoice in. the opportunity afforded by this demonstration of the miglvl of the A*merican naval power to express their sincere admiration for your sailors, and their esteem and affection for the country whose glorious flag they hopje to see always floating beside that of their motherland.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 31
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132GREETING TO THE PRESIDENT. Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 31
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