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Show TAFT PRAISES WORK OF COLONEL COETHALS XKtV TURK. Jan. Sa.-'Th fotca of pa c opinion among lha A at art ran pao pa will com pal tha naxl i-onfraaa to ra.-offnlsa tha juatlra nf tha aucfaMttftn" tltat Col. Oaoni W. Ooathala. chlaf aniinaar of tha Tartama canal, raoatva rank and par of a major gonaral In tha r nit ad Htataa irmr- la th opinion of Prealdant Taft. A loilar from tha praal. 1anl conveying tttla aantlmvnt waa raad at a dlnnar In honor of Coloool Ooatttala hrd bara laat night. "It la a aouroa t a par la I prlda to ma.' tha 11 tar aald, "that I raroinmandad to Praaldant Hooaavalt tha appointment of (o)onal Hoathala 11 chlaf anglnaar of tha .canal. It la difficult to ovaratata fha ork of ornnlaatlon and lha obataclaa a irb 'olon Oothala Itaa had to maat I and hoa auccaaafully ovarcoma in tha on at met Ion of tha graataat anglnaarlng pro I act of flva hutidrad yaara." Four hundrad man. majority of tham atigineara, Matanad to addraaa by Colo-nr Colo-nr Ooathala. Raar Admiral forry and othara. Tha dlnnar waa ghan on tha av of Coional Ooetlvala' daartur for Pan am. |