Show HEAD OF NATION WELCOMES FLEET PRESIDENT TAFT MAKES AN OFFICIAL OFFICIAL OF OF- VISIT TO GERMAN FLAGSHIP FLAGSHIP FLAG FLAG- SHIP MOL MOLTKE Formal Dinner Given Visitors by Rear Admiral Ward and Officers of the American Squadron Following Visit of the President Fort Monroe Va President President Taft Tafton on Monday extended an official we welcome welcome wel wel- come to a great foreign fleet when he extended the hand of oC friendship to Rear Admiral von Paschwitz commanding the visiting division of the German navy While more than a thousand German German German Ger Ger- man sailors stood at attention on the decks of the giant Moltke l Germanys Germany's battle cruiser President Taft boarded board board- ed the vessel At the gangway Admiral Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral von Paschwitz and his staff waited to greet the chief tive As the tue president st stepped from the ladder that led him over the side of the Moltke he lie extended his hand handin in greeting to the German admiral and exclaimed Ad Admit Admiral mira al Im I'm glad to welcome you OU and to have an opportunity of visiting the Moltke l one of the finest ships I Ive I've ever seen The president was escorted over the big German vessel the crew standing at quarters saluting as the party passed As the president left the Moltke the German band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and on the gundeck a six barked out the twenty twenty- one guns of the presidential salute The Tho president his formal call of welcome over returned to the May l flower A short distance away the American battleship squadron swung idly at anchor Seven great vessels including the new Deia- Deia ware and Utah dressed ship as the president and the admiral exchanged courtesies No speeches were made during the I visit of the president to tie the Moltke Mattke but at night a formal Cormal dinner was wai given the officers of oC the German fleet fleeton on board the dread naught Florida Rear Admiral Ward Vard commanding the American squadron and Rear Admiral v von o 0 n a Paschwitz delivered speeches |