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Show il EAft S 111 25,000 American Sailors to Have Relaxation After Practice Near Cuba NEW YOVK, May l.--The great Atlantic flec'fc arived in homo waters early today to give 25,000 American bluejackets :l two weeks' relaxation from their winter period of target practice and drill off Guantanamo, Cuba. The fleet comprising eight monster battleships, aggregating more than 200,000 tons displacement, and more than forty destroyers, tenders and smaller fighting craft, no3ed ils way in through n heavy mist at dawn. On board tho flagship Pennsylvania with Admiral Henry B. "Wilson, commander com-mander of the fleet were Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Admiral Ko-bert Ko-bert E. Coontz. chief of naval "operations, "opera-tions, who boarded the dreadnaught at sea early Friday morning. The fleet was" met down tho bay by a squadron of navy seaplanes from tho base here and a short time later was greeted by a fleet of destroyers and lugs from the navy yard which went out to pilot the men of war up through the narrows past tho forts with their thundering guns of welcome. |