Show WANT TO 0 SEE OUR W ARSHlrS INVITATIONS RECEIVED FRom MANY ENGLISH PORTS Talk of Reestablishing the Atlantic Squadron and Sending It Abroad Under Admiral Sathpson Washington April SSJnce the suggestion sug-gestion was made some months ago that the navy department should reestablish establish the European squadron and include among the Vessels to be de I tailed to that station some of those J which took a distinguished part in the great naval battle of July 3 the mu nicipal authorIties of some of the English Eng-lish ports have invited the department to send the ships to theIr places promising f prom-Ising a royal welcome The department hiewever has been unable to carry out its plans for the Immediate establishment of the European Euro-pean squadron owing In the first place to the necessity of dispatching tV tYv ic most of the smaller vessels of then I North Atlantic squadron to reinforce Deweys Heel and in the second place to the desire to avoid a remission of the annual spring nnd summer maneuvers maneu-vers of the North Atlantic squadron The extreme importance of these maneuvers ma-neuvers was so thoroughly demonstrated demon-strated by the results obtained during the SpanishAmerican war that It is believed to be unwise to omit them for even one season Now It Is suggested that if the European Eu-ropean squadron Is not t6 be reStab lIshed it may at least be feasible to fund same of the crack ships of the North Atlantic squadron across the Atlantic on a visit of courtesy to the English ports as soon as the maneuvers maneu-vers now In progress In the Caribbean sea are concluded and the ships have I had an opportunity to refit The execution exe-cution of this plats would It is said involve the sending of Rear Admiral Sampson himself In command of the flying squa ron 11 This suggestion has not so far taken anything like officIal form and It wu said at the navigation bureau today that it was very unlikely that It would come to anything t may be noted that the nay depar ent would move very deliberately in 0 flexing any such movement of the 6hI s of the North I Atlantic squadron I they were dispatched I dis-patched as projected only to English ports the event wou have a deep in f evs1 g eh Jg I I ternatlonal signifccan a and would be likely to cause lrrita on among some I of the continental porera that are already al-ready deeply agitate over the existing i exist-ing entente between tie United States and Great Zritaln |