More Fleet.
Admiral Sperry, before leaving Albany for Manila, unofficially announced that there was a probability that the American cruiser squadron now proceeding to Samoa- would visit Australia, but as it was crossing the Pacific for training purposes, it would not expect a public reception in Australia. Admiral Swinburne’s squadron consists of six up-to-date cruisers of the first class and a flotilla of torpedo boats. At the invitation of the German Government, it recently left San Francisco for Apia to pay a courtesy visit to Germany’s inid-Pacifie colony. It will probably join the Atlantic fleet at Manila after the visit to Japan. The squadron is probably now in Samoan waters, but owing to the lack of telegraphic communication it is impossible to say whether it has yet arrived.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 14, 30 September 1908, Page 7
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128More Fleet. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 14, 30 September 1908, Page 7
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