AMERICAN CRUISERS.
AT APIA. {dt telrgbaps—trf.ss association—cortitiGm.) Suva, Soptember 30. The United States cruisers Tennessee (flying Admiral Sebree's flag) and Washington, with two torpedo-boat destroyers, arrived at Apia on September 21, and anchored in the roadstead. The programme included a reception, native' functions, races, native feasts, and dances, and a ball. The vessels left early on Wednesday for Pago Pago. The fleet colliers Stratheyo and Strathcona are overdue. The cruiser squadron was timed to leave Samoa on the 27th, and is due in San Francisco, via Honolulu, on December 4. The destroyer Solaco left Suva on September 24 to communicate with the fleet by wireless telegraphy. Sh'o is expected to roturn to pick np the passengers of the steamer Aeon (wrecked on Christmas Island) who were bound for Pago Pago.
It was cabled from New York on August ?5 that Kear-Admiral Swinburne's squadron—six armoured cruisers and a flotilla of dostioyers— had sailed from San Francisco for Samoa, in response to Germany's invitation. The Tennessee and the Washinton are both of 14,500 tons, the former having a speed of 22.1 and the latter 22.8 knots. In these details they comparo with the Australian flagship Powerful, 14,200 tons, 22.1 knots.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 316, 1 October 1908, Page 7
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