GERMAN NAVY AND AMERICA
77- BERLIN, April 5,; A German cruiser squadron will visit the United States in' June to. repay the visit which the, American battleship division made to Kiel m 1911. The squadron will ,be headed by »the battlecruiser Mbltke, '-.; t(ho fastest "capital" ship of the German fleet, with a record of 29 knots. A* special feature of the cruise will, at tb% 'personal suggestion of tlie Kaiser, be ah.atteriipt to break the trans-Atlantic- speed record. The Moltke will be acoompariied by a pro-. tected cruiser and 'will be joined m the Western Atlantic by the protected cruiser Bremen, ; which is stationed,' in those paters. The,, -Bremen m the meantime will be dry.^ docked and overhauled m an American navy yard.; It! was the Kaiser's original intention to send «*his sailor son; Prince Adalbert, to tho United States; m the Moltke, but that plan has '--riojy ■' been . definitely abandoned, v ('■■'.'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)
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