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Show BATTLESHIP FLEET TO RESUME VOYAGE Will Start for Rio Janeiro This Morning in First-Cflass Shape. POUT OF SPAI2sr, Dec. 2S. Tho Amcricau fleet will sail for Rio Janeiro tomorrow morning, probably at an early hour, although the exact hour has not been signalled by the admiral. The battleships have boon cleaned up and given linal preparations for tho long voyage and are now looking spick ami span. The engines, tho boilers and all tho machinery have been overhauled, and everything is in tirst-clas3 condition condi-tion for the trip. Rear Admiral Evans on his flagship Connecticut, and accompanied by the Alabama, the flagship of Rear Admiral Spcrrv, the .Illinois, the Kearsargc and the Kentucky, steamed out into the gulf this morning to adjust compasses. They returned about noon. During the stay of the fleet in port considerable time has been devoted to important drills with tho lig and small guns, torpedo tor-pedo and torpedo defenses. The news of tho naval controversy in the United States, which "haB been cabled here, aud in which Surgeon General Rixey and Admiral Hrowuson figured prominently, is exciting much interest among the officers of the fleet, but they refuse to publicly express their vie'ws regarding it. |