PRESIDENT TAFT EULOGISED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 114, 6 July 1911, Page 5

PRESIDENT TAFT EULOGISED.

BY SIR, J. G. WARD.

London, July 5. At the Independence Day banquet at the Savoy, Sir J. G. Ward, Bart, proposed the health of President Taft and said he was the embodiment of the nation’s best traits, which were vigor, industry, self-reliance, love of union, of peace and the British people. His simplicity of life was supreme. He had shown consummate skill in launching to the world his proposal for a peace treaty between the great Eng-lish-speaking peoples The United States Ambassador, responding to the toast of his own health, proposed the health of Mr Hays-Hammond, the United States special envoy to the Coronation, eulogising the main results of Mr Taft’s policy. Mr Haramond-Hays, in responding, declared that Mr Taft’s dearest hope was the solution of the supremo problem of universal peace. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. OUTBREAK IN ENGLAND. (Received 6, 8.5 a.m.) London, July 5. Sir Edward Strachey, Parliamentary Secretary of Agriculture, announced the outbreak of foot and mouth disease at Hounslow. A heifer and fortytwo pigs have been affected. To-day’s newspapers anticipate that Canada, Australia and South Africa will renew their restrictive orders preventing the export of cattle bought at high prices at British shows.