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Show WATSON'S SQUADRON. rrepenitlnn tiring niM-l fur IIU Depar Inraliir I li-rn Ualrn. Wathlngton, July 8. Tho pretldent calletl a council of war to meet at the Wlilto llouae, the purpote being to retlew the tltuallon and learn ex actly what the prcnent condition! are and what chaaget It any ahould be made In the plant for the future con duet of the war. According to one of the member prctcnt, It tin decided to abide by the plant already laid, at leatt at to the general conduct of the campaign. Confirmation aecmed to hate been gltcn to thliitaletncnt later In the day when, after n conference with the membera of the war board, Secretary I-ong announced to the watting watt-ing newipaper men that he had order. cd Admiral Hampton to detach from hit uwn command Immediately the teaael to Ik embraced In Commodore WaUon'e etttern iquadrun and to direct di-rect the commodore to proceed on hla million. The teaael of tho iquadron will not be the aame nt thote originally acleet cd, for the reaton probably that the recent engagement with Ccrrera'a iiadron ncceatltated tome change. The new eattern qnadron will conaltt of the battlcthlpt Iowa and Oregon, the protected crulwn Newark and the-auxtlary the-auxtlary crulaera (carrying tide armor) Dixie, Yankee and Yotetulte; the collier col-lier Atercuda, Cattlut, Ctrtar, Leonl iltaanl Juttln, and the tupply boat Delraonlco. The Iowa, Oregon and Newark are all In the tnulh with Hampton, Hu la the Yotemlte, The Dixie It at Newport and the Yankte at Tomptate-a-'tttaivTliai'ooUlara'ar at Hampton lload with the Delraonlco. The ahlpt aro to act tall aa toon aa they can coal and tupply. |