THE AMERICAN FLEET.
BY WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
FROM SAMOA
Press Association — Electric Teiecraph— Copyright MELBOURNE, Last Night.
Router's Agency has received the following iuforniation by wireless telegraph from the American fleot :— At 8 p.m. ou July oOtli tho fleet was Sdeg. oOmiu. south ami KiTdog. JjOmin. west. The cruise so far had been uneventful. Four hours daily were spent in tactical evohitious. Tho coal consumption was beiug deoroased daily, thus giving a greater steaming radius. The symmetrical developmont of tlie movements of tho battleships along all lines was most gratifying. A later message, dated July 81st, S p.m., stated :—"Position of the licet now 13.4-.3 dog. south, ](>!). r> 7 dog. west. Will pass east end of Tutuila (an island of the Samoau group, ou the south-east coast of which is Pago-Pago Harbour) to-morrow (Saturday) at 0> a.m. ; then cruise along southern shore, and thereafter shape a course direct for Auckland. Alfwell.' !
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9934, 3 August 1908, Page 5
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150THE AMERICAN FLEET. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9934, 3 August 1908, Page 5
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