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Show uu TARGET SHIP IS TOWED TO YARD Norfolk, Va,, Aug. 12. The monitor Puritan, which was the target Tuesday Tues-day for a twelve-Inch shell fired by the monitor Tallahassee, had arrived today at the navy yard in tow of two naval tugs. The vessel has a hole in her stern and considerable of her superstructure "was shot away. Naval officers say no effort was made to hit the Puritan below .tho water line. The firing took place at the mouth of the Potomac river and was witnessed by a number of naval officers and ordnance experts. on |