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Show HEAD OF NATION WELCOMES FLEET PRESIDENT TAFT MAKES AN OF FICIAL VISIT TO GERMAN FLAGSHIP FLAG-SHIP MOLTKE. Formal Dinner Given Visitors by Rear Admiral Ward and Officers of the American Squadron Following Visit of the President. Fort Monroe, Va. President Taft on Monday extended an official welcome wel-come to a great foreign fleet when he extended the hand of friendship to Rear Admiral vou Rebeur-PaschwlU, commanding the visiting division of the (iermau navy. While more than a thousand Herman Her-man sailors stood at attention on the decks of the giant Moltko, Germany's battle cruiser, President Taft boarded board-ed the vessel. At the gangway Admiral Ad-miral von Itebeur Paschwitz and bid start waited to greet the chief executive. execu-tive. As t'ne president stepped from the ladder that led him over the side of the Moltke, he extended his hand In greeting to the German admiral and exclaimed: "Admiral, I'm glud to welcome you and to have an opportunity of visiting the Moltke, one of the II nest ships I've ever seen." Tho president was escorted over the big German vessel, the crew standing at quarters, Habiting as the party passed. As tho president left the Moltke the German band struck up the "Star-Spangled "Star-Spangled Itanner" and on the gundeek a six pounder barked out the twenty-one twenty-one guns of the presidential salute. The president, his formal call of welcome over, returned to the Mayflower. May-flower. A Khort distance away the American battleship squadron swung Idly at anchor. Seven great vessels, including the new dreadnaughts l)eia ware and I'tah, dressed ship as the president and the admiral exchanged courtesies. No speeches were made during the visit of the president to tho Moltke, but at night a formal dlnucr was given the officers of the German fleet on board the dreaduaught Florida. Rear Admiral Ward, commanding the American squadron, and Rear Admiral von Rebeur-Paschwitz delivered speeches. |
