Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-07-07

| invitation of the New Zealand gov
ernment that the American ships go
there, and at this port the Yankee
sailors Will receive their first greet
ings from foreign people since leav-
ing South America. This greeting will
be particularly cordial and the enter
tainment arranged for officers and
mer promises to be magnificent. The
fact that this greeting will come at
the end of the longest leg of the voy-
age around the world, when the men
are worn by stretch of seventeen
successive days out of sight of land.
Will tend to make 1t all the more well
come.
Perhaps the greatest of all the en-
tertainments, to be given the men Of
the fleet III any foreign city, how
ever, Will be waiting their arrival at
Sidney, the great port of Australia.
where the war ships. after leaving
Auckland on August 10, will arrive on
August 20. Half million dollars -
the sum the government of Australia
and the people of Sidney have ap-
propriated for the entertainment of
the American sailors Varied and
many are the pleasures the Austral-
ians have planned and placed in store
for them, during the nine days of
their stay at that port The govern
ment Will take an active part in these
entertainments, those in the official
life of the colony vielng with private
citizens in efforts TO display their
hospitality. A series of elaborate So
cial functions for the officers, and pa
rades and excursions and sports for
the enlisted men comprise the pro-
gram.
Melbourne and Albany are two 9TH
er ports of Australia where the fleet
viii stop, and where open handed
hospitality and lavish entertainment
Will be given the men. From the
port of Albany the fleet will steam on
September II for Manila and it will
arr i'm these American waters, the
last home port until Hampton Roads,
on October
Tne receL ton to be accorded the
Rect in Manila will be a striking one
and the entertainment of the officers
and men ashore will be as cordial and
heartfelt If not as elaborate. as the
reception at other places. The Amer
lean colony in Manila Is looking for
ward to the event, with feryent an
ticlpation. \ large fund has been
subscribed. and committees are at
work on the preparations.
Great interest is felt in the fleets
visit to Japan. Proceeding TO Yoko-
hama from Manila, the fleet viii ar
rive there on October II. Here on Oc-
tober "a it viii be divided, the first
squadron returning to Manila, where
it will arrive October 20 The prom
ise is that the welcome to be given
the Americans in Yokohama will not
be second in graciousness, at least, to
anything met with at any port preW-
OuSly touched; for IL Is upon the spe-
cial Invitation of the emperor of Ja-
pan that the fleet goes there. Elab-
orate functions at court and social
affairs Will be held for the officers Of
the fleet.
At Annoy China, the reception will
doubtless be the occasion Of "A great
celebration characteristic Of the Chi
nese. The tao squadrons of the fleet
will h' brought together again at Ma
Mia on November Z, and the depart
ure thence for Alden. and the passage
Of the Suez will take place within the
following few days, the exact date not
yet having been determined.
The ships of the Pacific fleet, which
assembled mere previously 20 the de-
parture of the batteshipS for Hamp-
ton Roads, will remain In this harbor
until August 3. at which time they win
start for Samoa and the Philippines,
with the little black bloats compris-
Ing the Atlantic and Pacific torpedo
flotillas in tow. Preparatory 10 this
summer voyage OF the Pacific fleet.
squadron OF the cruisers will take
IN - IA In, n1
steam down the Pacific coast as far
as San Diego by way Of a test OF tne