AMERICAN FLEET.
INVITATION ACCEPTED. CALLING AT MELBODBNE AND SYDNEY. LONDON, March 14. Official advices from Washington state that Admiral Evans' fleet will leave San Francisco on July 6 and will in turn visit Hawaii, Sifmoa, Melbourne, and Sydney. From Sydney the fleet will proceed to the Philippine Islands for autumn gunnery practice, after which it will return to the Atlantic, via Suez. Mr. Deakin's invitation to the fleet to visit Australia was supported by the British Ambassador. MR. DEAKIN'S ENTHUSIASM. (Received 10.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this.day. Mr. Deakin, at the conclusion of his speech on national defence, said the American fleet would receive a welcome such as they had never seen outside their own country. A JAPANESE VIEW. VISIT A GUARANTEE OF PEACE. (Received 9.11 a.m.) X0K.10.. March 15. When the Australian visit was announced an official at the Foreign Office at Tokio stated that the decision to send an American fleet on a tour of the world would silence all talk of war and would be a guarantee of peace. (Received 10.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. The Minister for Defence said the visit of the American fleet was most gratifying to Australia, adding: "We feel that our future in the Pacific is bound up in that of America."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1908, Page 5
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