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Show uia auNu of tiic tcxab. They t'sn lie I lre.1 al llie llaU of Kirrf H.ll SllnulM. Washington, April So. Secretary long received a telegram till morning morn-ing from Commodore Schley of the flying fly-ing wpjadrun, announcing the return nf tha upjadrou to llamplun lluail afler a mmt tuercatful practice cruise of forty-eight hour, during which the batlcrlr of th various ships were given a thorough trial and the thin put through maneuver rapt. Phillip, commanding the battleship bat-tleship Toxat, scut a telegram to Assistant As-sistant Secretary llooserrlt. In which bespoke In tho highest term of th pcrformaneca of that ship, llu mentioned men-tioned In particular th vast Improvement Improve-ment In the operation of the big gun In the main battery, resulting from change intde at the New York navy yard recently Formerly the big gunt could be fired only once lu eight minutes, but now they are capable of autlaliilng continuous contin-uous flro at the rate of a gun every t.fl minutes ('apt. I'hllllp cluse hi telegram with the proud Itatemrnti "Thu Texat It ready to fight anything afloat." |
