Newport News March 16.
The dreadnought Pennsylvania was launched to-day. Mr. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, in speech at the luncheon given' on 863 the occasion, said that the American Navy had never been so powerful or so ready as at the present time.
The Captain of the German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, in full uniform, witnessed the launching.—Reuter. mania is to have a facement of 1,400 tons, with twelve in. guns and a apeed of twenty-one
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