THE PACIFIC FLEET.
VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. INVITATION TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Received March 18, 10.22 a.m. MELBOURNE, March 18. A suggestion is mooted to invite President Roosevelt to accompany the United States fleet to Australia. Received March 19, 1.21 a.m. MELBOURNE. March 18. Senator Best, speaking in the Senate, said in reply to a question that it was most unusual for a President to United States, and he feared it was useless to invite him to visit Australia. The fleet consists of 16 battleships, nearly as many cruisers and gunboats, several torpedoers and colliers. 52 vessels in all, and represents a money value of £25,000,000. RearAdmiral Evans, who has charge of the fleet, has in his keeping the lives of 15,330 men, and on his flagship alone he has £600,000 in actual money salaries. Each battleship carries 3,000 tons of ammunition, ranging from "blapks," used in firing official salutes, to two-ton combination of guncotton and lignite. The warships are equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus, and carry a number of official recorders of the tour, who send their messages to approved agencies in New York, and are debarred from contributing magazine articles on the progress of the fleet.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9043, 19 March 1908, Page 5
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196THE PACIFIC FLEET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9043, 19 March 1908, Page 5
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