Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-21

of Japanese construction and equipment
She is of 1900 tons and "a knots speed
armed with eight-inCh quick lrers IN par
bcttes fore and aft and smaller callbef IN
proportion The protected cruiser Chliose
accornpanies the Tsukuba. These vessels
attain great speed. Vice Admiral yum VIII
no i'm command This will be the first visit
~ :, Japanese squadron to the Atlantlc
cnoet eince japan attained high rank as a
naval mower in the war with Russia i he
fleet is now en- route to Hampton roans;
Austria will be represented IN lne 'ntei
national fleet by the arlloreu 'iuiSeis ~
George and Aspern. o.,s
This fleet started for Hampton roads
earIv in April and will remain until me
1st Of July Commodore Hermann floshe''
commands the Anstrlans
Fleet of German Vessels.
Germany will send a fleet Of vessels CON
sisiing of battlcships Room, Brennan ana
Panther The Room is of 5000 tons dis
placement. length, 1929 feet; beam. 6o.o
feet; draught, 2l.75 feet; horsepower,
!o.GO0; guns. four Sd inch, twelve twenty
| four Founders ten one Founders and four
machine guns The Bremen and Panther
are now in Hampton roads at the New
| port News shipyards undergoing repairs.
| and the other vessels are expected to ar
rive soon. and also undergo repairs in the
| Newport News shinyards. All these yes
| sells belong to the imperial south Atlantic
squadron, and are under the comma nd
| of Commodore Kalau Won Hofe.
! Italy is sending three ships. the cruisers
| Nares@. Etruria and Fieramosa, under COM
| mand of the Duke of Abruzzi. This fleet
| is also en- route to Hampton roads.
| Portugal will send one ship, the Don
| Carlos. and Russia two or more.
| Sweden has decided to send its armored
| cruiser Fylgia. Prince Wilhelm the Sailor
! Prince in command. The Fylgia is 3T6 feet
| long, beam 10 feet mean draught 16 feet
! diSr,lacP.nGDt 4 tt0 tons and is prODGllcH nv
/ l2.COp horsepower engines; speed. u. knots.
! She carries eight 6-inch, fourteen 6-pound-
/ ers and two submerged torpedo tubes.
| Chile has sent the cruiser Baquendana
| and Argentina the Larmiento. Brazil has
sent the ironclad Riaghuelo and the cruis-
| ers Sorroso and Tamoyo. under command
OF Rear Admiral Duarte Huet de Bacellar.
| Mexico is sending two training ships.
| on the liner Siberia, due in San Francisco
| about May 3 coming several Chinese
| officers who have been detailed by their
| government to attend the jamestown expo
| sition Tor the purpose of studying military
| and naval matters.
Delegation of Chinese Officials.
The delegation will include Lin Sung
Chang, lieutenant. second grade gunnery
officer of the Chipese warship Hal Chi; Col
| Lo Ting Hsin, director of coast defense for
| the north; Major Hsiac Kiang Chen, COM
| manding first battalion, first Manchurian
| division, and Capt. Wang Yen Hin, deputy
| aid-de-camp to the commander of the sec
| ond division.
The principal part of the great American
| squadron will be Rear Admiral Davis At
| lantic fleet. composed of eighteen first-class
| battleshipS and two mammoth armoreG
| cruisers. Two of the battleships, the Iowa
| and Indiana, took active part in the battle
| of Santiago in 1898, when Rear Admiral
Schley's flying squadron defeated Admiral
| Cervera's Spanish fleet off the Cuban coast
The battleships of the fleet the
| louisiana Minnesota, Vermont, Texas
| Connecticut. Virginia, Georgia, Rhode
| Island, New Jersey. Nebraska, Missouri
| Ohio Maine, Illinois, Alabama. Kearsarge
| Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa and Indiana
| The armored cruisers are the Washington
| st. Louis, Brooklyn and Olympia. The
| monitors are the Florida, Arkansas, Neva-
| auxiliaries are the Leouidas, Lebanon
| Nero, Ajax, Caesar, Hannibal, Abarends