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Show FLEET WELL ON PASSAGE THROUGH PANAMA CANAL ABOARD THE U. S. S. NEW MEXICO, MEX-ICO, Friday. Jul v .25. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Tress.) Eour dreadnoughts of the Pacific fleet, the New Mexico, Arkansas, Ar-kansas, Texas and Xew York, were lifted successfully through the Gatun locks todav. This was the first attempt at-tempt to negotiate the waterway with a fleet of dreadnoughts, and tonight the warships He anchored in the fresh water of Gatun lake, eighty-five feet above sea level. Tho dreadnoughts will resume their trip toward the Pacific ocean Saturday, at which time the Mississippi Mis-sissippi and Wyoming, now coaling and oiling at Colon, will commence the pas-eago pas-eago of the canal. Admiral Hugh Eodman, in command of the fleet, was pleased with the success suc-cess of the first stage of the canal trip. He said: "The flagship was lifted out of the three locks of Gatun dam in one hour and seventeen minutes. Now let us go tarpon fishing, near the dam putting, dreadnoughts through the canal is too easy. ' ' The old battleships Georgia and-Vermont joinod the fleet at Colon today. After the Xew Mexico had oiled at Colon, Co-lon, she swung lazily into Limon bay, creeping slowly through the first cuttings cut-tings of "the waterway amid dense ."jun-gle ."jun-gle growth like some weird amphibian in a prehistoric swamp. Xearing the locks the crew flung landing lines outboard, which quickly drew inboard steel cables that led to the electric VII1,ll(,s'" running on tracks on each side of the locks. The whole operation seemed to function automatically, automati-cally, for not an order was heard as the drend noughts slid into the lower locks |