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Show ATLANTIC FLEET ASSEMBLING. Two Months of Practice for Jackies and Monster Fighting Macihines. Washington. With two months of hard work before it, the Atlantic battleship bat-tleship fleet is assembling in Harnp-ton Harnp-ton Roads, Va., for the summer ma-neuverers, ma-neuverers, which will be extensive and exhaustive. The fleet may be divided' di-vided' into two squadrons to figlr? against each other, and a dozen torpedo tor-pedo boats will make attacks on the big battleships', whose officers and men will be required to exert extreme ex-treme vigilance also to guard against the stealthy little submarine torpedo boats, four of which, with parent ships, are attached to the fleet. "Under Rear Admiral Seaton Schroe-dex, Schroe-dex, commander-itf-chief of the Atlantic At-lantic fleet, will be nearly half a hundred hun-dred ships of war, ranging in size from the big 16,000-ton flagship Connecticut Con-necticut to the little seventeen-ton submarine Tarantula. |