| Show Entire fleet fleetIs fl i Is J ShIps Composing Admiral Squadron Ate Are Sent To the of the Sea S Lost f Arl Ate the I New London Conn Sept 6 Maj lull en MacArthur commanding the Mi tl ot of the CI eit t this noon 1 1110 Ar I a statement oC J progress o ot I 1 t nights engagements n I ht and Terry Admiral leet hoot The Tue state I Ilent HO says that Wright fired 34 shots ot of all the tire command I 11 or cr claIming the th destructIon of the el I tire fleet by br three or tour four tm times s the number ot of pointy points required Fort lehl s bat batteries cris fired nt at niL alL the tue until the tho last on one was out of range and to have put out thE n Indiana and Alabama J FOrt t Terry In the meantime ivits engaged at long range rite fhe statement adds t It was 08 n a yur very dear bright star starlight light night und mind even if al all ot of the searchlIghts are ruled o out t by the tho lre fira flum the cruisers the battleships wel worn seen antI suffered rd severely everly front front the batteries at Wright and Michl alter G 6 the ba battleships 11 cd through the r race ce returning utI up to Dock Block Island At Fot Fort dums reported the let fiet In lne lilla ur of battle headIng In nt at 1200 yards yard At 1228 l Fort ort Adams reported th J enterIng truce the tho harbor tring flying a a lag hag of at Brenton Point Newport It H rt 1 Sept 5 II Ill n a 1 roundo I dl h It at about 83 title in and nd headed northeast apparently th tile Intention of to tiO tle point and then T The e ships In line n tl tile Massachusetts Alabama Indiana und and In lne Ilic A tUI tug Ij p them hf weather taa S remarkably clen clear t could easily be follow qi QI pr 1 1 mies niiles or off shore A AT lj judith Sept Sept ships ot of Ie Alala Alaba r rM Ind and Topeka ro conic to nn an 1 southeast ot of here dur durIn durin In lr the forenoon rue fhe ler left t e at Nw New Harbor Bock BockI Block I at t S thi tills rho b I l moved slowly In tile the t t of I but the other rca ES mn made e 1 a detour some ome frol t westward und tind others train the ne 56 elt rho ho anti ana mIl men at th fl station were using the Ut uL uLli li mm t vigilance und and every cerr precaution Mt be beCa n taken h by Col ol t to artl Ide evade a seizure ot of the station I h oon IH as the tue ve vessels had anchored ni all th aboard u the lag hag ship |
