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Show PAY GERMANS COMPLIMENT. American Vessels Salute Visitors on the Sabbath Day. Norfolk, Va. The American battleships battle-ships Utah, Delaware and Florida exchanged ex-changed salutes with the German cruiser battleship Moltke Sunday as the three former ships sped through the capes en route to Hampton Roads. The firing of salutes on Sunday by American .ships is not customary, na-val na-val officers say, and the fact that the Utah, which led the three American ships as they passed the capes, boomed the first salute to Rear Admiral Ad-miral von Rebuer Paschwitz, commanding com-manding the German squadron, was regarded as an unusual compliment for the German commander. |