Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-07-08
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 that the American ships go there, and at this port ihr " Yankcc' sailors will receive their first greetings from q for cign people since leaving South Ameri ca. This greeting will be particularly cordial and the entertainment arranged for officers and men promises to be mag. 1 niiiccn' The fact that this greeting will come nt the end of the longest leg of the voyage around the world. when the men are worn by strctcn of seventeen successive days ont of sight of land. will tend to make it all the more welcome.
 Perhaps the greatest of all the enter tainments to be given the men of the fleet in any foreign city, however, will be waiting their arrival at Sidney, the great port of Australia. where the war,hips. after leaving Aunkland on August Ij. will arrive on August %. ! Half a million dollars is the sum the government of Australia and the peo. pie of Sidney have appropriated for the entertainment of the American sailors. Varied and many are the pleas. ures the Australians have planned and placed in store for them. during the nine days of their stay at that port. The government will take an active part in these entertainments. those in the official life of the Colony vicing ,,s.s In. .Ha sn Ia. play their hospitality. A series of elaborate social functions for the oili. ccrs, and parades and excursions and sports for the enlisted men comprise the program.
 Melbourne and Albany are two other ports of Australia where the fleet will stop. and where open. handed hospitali. l ty. and lavish entertainment will be given the men. From the port of Al bany the fleet will steam on September i7 for Manila, and it will arrive in these American waters, the last home port until Hampton Roads, on October n. 1908.
 The reception to be accorded the fleet in Manila will be . striking one. anj l the entertainment of the officers and men ashore will be as cordial and heartfelt, if not as elaborate. as the re captions at other places. The Ameri can colony in Manila is Joking forward to the event with fervent anticipation 4 large fund has been subscribed, and committees are at work on the prepar ations.
 Great interest is felt in the fleet E visit to Japan. Proceeding to Yoko hama from Manila, the fleet will arrive there on October r.. Here on October 2i it will be divided, the first squadron returning October 3l to Manila, where it will arrive October %. The promise is that the welcome to be given th, Americans in Yokohama will not b, second in graciousness at least, to any thing met with at any port previously touched; for it is upon the special in yitaiion of the Emperor of Japan that he fleet goes there. Elaborate funct ions at court, and social affairs will be held for the officers of the fleet.
 At Annoy, China, the reception will doubtless he the occasion of n great celebration characteristic of the Chin. csc. The two squadrons of the fleet will be brought together again at Man. fla on November z, and the departure for Mlen, and the passage of the Suez will take place within the following few days, the exact date not yet hay. ing been determined.
 The ships of the Pacific fleet. which assembled here previously to the de. parture of the battleships for Hampton Roads, will remain in this harbor until August !, at which time thy will start for Samoa and the Philippines, with the little black boats comprising the Atlantic and Pacific torpedo fotllas in tow Preparatory to this summer voyage of the Pacific fleet, squadron of the cruisers will take some of the the Pacific coast as far as San Diego by way of a test of the possibility of towing the little craft for long dis tanccs. The towing to Samoa and the Philippines is contingent upon the sue cess of this experiment.
 Admiral Dayton, now in command of the Pacific fleet, will retire August l, and it is considered probable that Ad- miral Swinburne will succeed him in command of the Pacific fleet, and take if across the Pacific and back.
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