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Show ARMY AND NAVY EXERCISES ON Hostile Fleet Cuts All Communication. Aclua! Offensive Oparations to Bo Begun at Midnight. Defense Guarding' tho Water Approaches Ap-proaches to Washington and Baltimore Bal-timore Will Bo Asbailed. FORT MONROE. Va., Juno 10 Admiral Admi-ral Dickens. U S. N., commanding sixteen six-teen warships, todny hold his last communication com-munication with shore preparatory to tho Joint exercises of tho army and navy. Ills ships now constitute a hoptllo fleet, which will begin operations nt 12 o'clock tomorrow nlcht atrninst tho defenses guarding tho water approaches to w.-sh- injrton and Pnltlmore. What Befenses Are. These defenses are Fort Monroo, at Old Point Comfort, which, with Ite range of searchlights and shells, sweeps tho en-trance en-trance t.i the t ' Ii i m rt m a he frorn C tp.. Charles to Cape Henry; Forts Washington Washing-ton n ncl Hunt, guarding tho Potomac river and the Immediate approach to the National cud in I. and Forts Mellonry and Howard, (blinding Baltimore) All of them are manned and equipped to their full capacity. Coa3t Artillery on Guard. In nil fifty-one companies of coast artillery, ar-tillery, nearly half of this branch of the army, are on guard. Maj -G n, Wade, V. B. A commanding the Department of the Atlantic, commands the defense. He arrived ar-rived at Fort Monroe today "from Governor's Gov-ernor's Island. N. V. Weeks have heon spent In special drills nnd tho preparation prepara-tion of tho defenso is complete. Navy Must Locate Mines. In working out the exercises the conditions con-ditions of actual warfare aro not to be followed. Thrt i stltute the workfflH arc: Anli,?n.rVJ forts. practW 'i night and tr,r, f r" 'f S"1"". 'n which thK and destroy tgJBJ Guna EanaH hen the srtlllrr Wr, mines are dl.Teprtei,s"f " dnr1nK the mmJsBi t0 llreil, except cosssBl C'ins will U trains blan clurgs in a tZmf |