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Show I 1 ON MISSION OF PEACE B 1 rr'llllli''1 '-Willi li'iW 1 Thoro nailed from San Fmnclsco hnrbor tho B t JJJ) (j other day n squadron of Undo Ham's machines B WrlX ' wnr Hcnt on n" orrnn,l 0' ponco. Eight of tho B U '-iu! strongest and fnstost nrtnorud cruisers In tho stir LiH ? vlco nro plowing tholr way ncroiiB tho I'nclflc Into LiB Hti Hia orlonlnl wntorn, enrrying to tlio pooploB of Jnpnn B &p PMl$0) nml RM,nft incHsngoa of good will nnd frlondnhlp iifl IV k Exl sh$ilffl$( 'ro,n tnn c'l'zonH n,a country. B WsrMftWiJ T,1 HCCOml "P"co llcot" la not ho powerful Lifl rHHS Illr nor 'inl,0B'nK tho flrBt, but nevertheless mado H V ' Tn, w(ltt up of vobhcIh representing tho very nemo of naval B i"4Wffi) construction In tholr typo. LiH fJ4l ,,,no H'Pimlron consists of tho cruisers Tonnes- H &!t?t&EpsS fi00, Cn,,forn,H' 8outh Dnkotn, WoBhington, West B i&i01fz Virginia, Colorado, Maryland nnd Pennsylvania, B t ,ff..r.j nJ, 22.knot Hhll)B( rnnBK from 13,000 to 16,000 B tonn In displacement. . B Tho vohhoIb nrrived nt Honolulu, finwnll, Soptembor 11, whoro thoy will B ramnln until October C. Tholr next stop will bo at Nuro Harbor, Admiralty N iHlandfl, off tho coast of Now (lulnon, nnd from there thoy will steam to H Manila, where thoy nro expected to nrrlvo about Novombor 1. Then will H como a month of hard work nt (argot practice, upon tho completion of which M tho vodboIh of tho fleet will Bopnrnto nnd In pairs vlnit tho ports of tho Her- m inlt kingdom nnd China. On tho ninoteonth tho fleet will rcnssomhlo off H Yokohama and steam for homo. Thoy will pay another visit to Hawaii from H February 1 to 8, nnd nro expected to ronch 8an Francisco nbout February 16, """i flvo days boforo tho ndmlral will rotlro under tho ugu rulo. H During this flvo months' cruise, which will approximate 28,000 mllos, tho H squadron will bo under tho command of ono of tho ablest uavnl officers In H tho servlco, Roar Admiral Uriel Sobrco. A Missouri man, ho entered tho H naval academy during onrly war times, graduating when only 10 years of H ago. Ho has seen nervlco In oil quarters of tho globo, including tho polar H roglons, bolng a member of tho Arctic relief expedition on tho Tigress, in H 1B73, and on tho Qrcotcy relief expedition under Admiral Schley In 1884. |