ADMIRAL EVANS’ FLEET.
TO VISIT AUSTRALIA. Press Association —Copyright. London, March 14. Official advices from Washington state that Admiral Evans’, fleet will leave San Francisco on July 6th, and visit on their return Hawaii, Samoa, Melbourne, and Sydney. From Sydney the fleet will proceed to the Philippine Islands for autumn gunnery practice, after which it will return to the Atlantic via Suez. The iuvitation to the fleet to visit Australia was supported by the British Ambassador. JAPANESE APPROVAL OF TOUR. Received March 16, 9.11 a.m. Tokio, March 15. When the Australian visit was announced an official at the Foreign Office at • Tokio stated that the decision to send an American fleet on a tour round the world would silence all talk of war and guarantee peace.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9096, 16 March 1908, Page 5
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126ADMIRAL EVANS’ FLEET. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9096, 16 March 1908, Page 5
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