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Show FIT FOR FIGHT OR FROLIC. Important Demonstration of Around the World Cruise. Old Port Comfort, Va. Half way across the Atlantic ocean on the last long reach of their spectacular cruise around the world, the sixteen battleships battle-ships of the United States Atlantic fleet are steaming in leisurely fashion towards the anchorage . grounds of Hampton Roads, from whence they sailed just fourteen months ago. During Dur-ing these months of record steaming, the heavily armored fighting vessels have traveled approximately 45,000 miles, and are returning in condition still fit for "a frolic or a fight." The cruise has been a veritable expedition of the seven seas, and tasks heretofore hereto-fore deemed impossible for the modern mod-ern ironclads have been accomplished with an ease bordering on the commonplace. |