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Show CHILEAN DREADNAUGHT IS REPAIRED AT BALBOA i WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 Appearance! of the 32.0u0-ton Britlsh-buUt Chil-. Chil-. m dreadnaught Aim bran te Latbrre, In the 1,000-foot Balboa drydock. Canal Zone, January 12. aroused the usually ' prosaic columns of 'he Canal Record to unprecedented literary flights in description. The ship was up for eeraplng. painting paint-ing and minor repairs, completed In j 48 hours Speaking of the scene at' I the dock after dark, the current is-j ! sue ftf the Record says "Below along the hull men scraped and painted, -(nginrr a they worked Lights glowed in the gloom far down beneath the vessel; the rapid-fire i-M hammers smote the earth and the j fluctuating glare of an oxy-acotylene torch ctitlinie and wedding down near the kr-e; n the hands of masked men , added an eerie touch." The Chilean ship was the largesl aver handled by the Balboa dock until un-til the New Mexico, flagship of the Pacific fleet., was hauled out thero a n a.'iv.i later tor cleaning Thc I : ord says of the dock, however, that. I like the canal locks, 'It Is capable of handling any ship. which has been built to date." oo |