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Show EM URGENCY SQUADRON. Urllish Waivhips Will lio Dispatched to (iibralta. Loudon, Oct. :il. There has been the greatest activity at Davenport, the site of the largest arsenal in Great liritain and two of the finest dry docks in the world. The government is assembling" an emergency squadron, which, it is understood, will go to llibralta. Despite De-spite that the wind has been blowing' almost a gale, the second-class battleship battle-ship Colossus arrived from Holyhead, a first-class battleship from (luecus-town (luecus-town and the first-class battleship Pen-bolt Pen-bolt from Orcenoek. The third-class cruiser Calliope, which was on the way to the Canaries, was intercepted and has returned unexpectedly to Plymouth. Ply-mouth. Other warships are coining- ta join the squadron and to coal. The government has ordered 200,000 tons of coal. |