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Show DEWEY EN ROUTE HOME. Hongkong Advices Say the Admiral Has Started Home. Hongkong, May 21. Admiral Dewey left Manila on Saturday morning, the 20th inst. If all goes well he will arrive ar-rive here next Monday morning. Arrangements have been made here to put the Olympia, the admiral's flagship, flag-ship, in dry dock as soon as she arrives. Her long sojourn in tropical waters has fouled her bottom so badly that she will need a thorough scraping in order to fit her for her trip across the Indian ocean. There are other matters, too, that will need to be looked after. Her machinery ma-chinery will be completely overhauled. New "trim" will be added, and the "gingerbread" wrork, which was dispensed dis-pensed with at the time she was pu t in war rig, will be replaced. She will be coaled and provisioned here, and when she steams out of the harbor about two weeks hence she will be in shape to make another record-breaking voyage with her record-breaking admiral. |