Show MANY WELCOME AMERICAN TARS Fresh as Though Cruising the Harbor Fleet Reaches Auckland TOWN GIVES GREETING Make Record Trip Arriving Hours Ahead of Schedule Time Republican Special Cable Cable Auckland N. N Z Aug 9 The The American battleship fleet feet came came to to an anchor anchor an- an chor ehor In Auckland harbor at twenty minutes to nine o'clock this morning Forty thousand persons banked on the hills around the bay and crowded on pleasure craft on the water sent Bent up a mighty shout of or welcome as the sixteen mighty lighting machines s steamed through the harbor gate an and came ame to a rest the first since leaving leving Honolulu almost three weeks ago Tho The battleships looked as fresh and anI though they had Just completed com coin clean lean as nl a cruise around MISS i 4 tho IU harbor ILI in iL stead il l of r gr a a grueling gru ling ig- ig grind gri o l'-o of miles mUes through tho the wastes wates of the tho Pa Pa- Po- Po cHic Never has las such a n record been made by a modern navy Without without adding to to ho he tto coal oal supply or equipment with which the they left lett Honolulu the tho battleships havo pl plowed wed through waters which never beheld such uch an aggregation then tion ton of sea power to recel cd bo received In Ina Ina Ina a foreign port hours houn ahead of or the time planned All AU night lon long there were watchers along along the Auckland land wat water r. r front At t 4 1 o'clock this morning tho lie word ord Orr went put that there was a t streamer of ot on tho the northern horizon and anc people tumbled hastily hast out of f bed and stumbled sleepily down toward the wharf The Tho fleet Is here shouted a man mann I In Iii n Queen n street and cries of the i feet fleet lect tho the fecU were taken Up throughout the sleeping town Windows Win dow dews few flew up and heads out and at being a no ono one protested For itt two hours fh the crowds i alone tho 1 I vater's vaters te rapidly y sr grew w and when hen I ho tho long line lne of or white warriors gleaning gleam gleam- lag ng In tho the rising sun came caine into view ins ho tho excitement was Intense In Auckland harbor tile tho swarms arrs 8 of or pleasure and commercial craft tim the he American and British 11 flags were crowded merian with the tue holiday crowt crowds look- look lag IDE DK on in n terse tense expectancy A little further urther out lay Jay time the Australian squadron under Vice Admiral to give ho tho the first official wel- wel welcome como come to the mighty visitors who who arco ameto arc aro I to o bo be Sow Now S guests guest tho timo comIng corning corn com Ing week hero was a hush over overtime OVO time the he J t amphitheater of mountains and nd bay buY as tho time great fleet steamed in near flitar l Admiral made mao that hat meet tho float fleet last n t out to ae the h r tt n r rI I 1 W rv c amo tP n ncnd o t t rt thon v f f smoke c s Y roKe 51 Vico AU Ad gt t from a 7 Iv and thu tho hundo hun thun- u b by do ov of ot tho the navil salute up tho ho thin other vessels of ot tho the squadron rolled across tho the water Before tho tIme reverberations ton mad had Jad rl away tho guns gun of the tho Connecticut I 8 oke oki tho their II answer aud answer answer- und and tho the Sunday wits broken brokon by tho- tho tho lonn that rose roSe from the thE ud warriors ton that t CY can Cnn talk t tI well wen as travel as' as a It was a thon thou that tho real cheers I tho the broke loose tho the water walor front housetops tho hills hUs and t the tho o shipping In n tho the bay were waro a Q mass of waving flags an and hats huts and there Thoro will be no real u jun until un til tl Monday y |