OBITUARY

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1918, Page 5

OBITUARY

MB. W H. PAGE .AMERICAN Ei MINISTER AX LONDON. New York, Dec, 23, ■. i|[ Mr. Walter Hinea Pages, ex-Amtassai 'W dor to Britain, is dead—Aus.-N.Z Cable/;' Assoc. Walisington, Dec. -.1 Tile State Department, in a dum, records the tribute that the Taw Mr. Page devoted himself to the tapk of * bringing abou a complete understanding between the two great !.ing \ nations. "His. interpretations of thtt'J wishes of his. Government met with the, '1 highest order of success m the'delicate \ iivgotiatiqns entrusted to hifiv, which merits the highest approval.—Aus.-N,Z,,7 Cable Assoc. '

Mr. W. H. Page was appointed 'Unitgd-lSj States Ambassador and Miniister-Pleni-T» -potentiarv to G/eai. .Britain .in auecessjou to Mr. Wiiitelaw Eeid in 11)13. "Prior his appointment he had been sd'tor the Forum (1830-85), cdi, i, oi" ;l,e-At-lantic. Monthly IS9O-09), editoK' 0 1, tha * World's Work . (ISM-lin*!; \ta* , also a member of the firm< af?4 Doiiblcfeiy, Page, and Co, All Page ve- j signed from hie position .towards tlis'-'S er.d of August of this jair. Swing t« j breakdown oi l-.is iesia « ifo ra-ult of /» overwork, and returned with- M*q. 1 ana to America, but lie' did not recover. Tha . New York Tiflies reins .i u. ji--, work., 1 at tho Embassy:—'"Mr. Page Well anii-i; worthily represented his Coreminent at, .J the Court of St. James'. 'L'lie .two na-JS tions are bound together as jjvver be-. ;| fore lie has represented not alone tha ? .policies of his Government, butVthe 9eu».jf timents of the American people;'' ' !< ti FROM WAR TO PEACE. "Jj The Lord Mayor of London telegrapK-«| ed tiTthtf Embassy at .the t;mo of Mr,'® Page's retirement, expressing the regretf-3 of the citizens of London that Mr Pag«'*| should have been compelled to relinquish /I tho position which lie had heltl for so \ many years with such devotion to bo;h nations, and giving him their- best wishes *' for a speedy and complete return to 'if health. The message concluded with the % assertion that no more popular sador had ever represented the United, 1 * States in this country, and that nono'>' had . ever served in a more anxious orvi critical time in the history of the na-'l tions. - ' ■Mr.'-Page was succeeded as dor by Mr. John W. Davies. rSj