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HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE.

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LONDON via Singapore, Suez, Marseilles & Ports.

TAIYO MARU

TENYO MARU

Monday, Tuesday,

11th December. į 9th January."

24th January.

*Calls Keelung.

FUSHIMI MARU

HAKOZAKI MARU

HAKURAN MARU

TANGO MARU

AKI MARÚ

BYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

Saturday,

3rd December.

Saturday,

17th December.

Saturday,

31st December.

Wednesday,

21st December.

Wednesday, 18th Janaury, 1928.

Monday, Tuesday,

12th December.

27th December.

BOMBAY via 'Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

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SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,

1 GENOA MARU

Mexico & Panama. RAKUYO MARU

Friday,

23rd December. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,

NEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA.

+ASUKA MARU

TAKAOKA MARU

Saturday, 10th December. Wednesday, 21st December.

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†DAKAR MARU

CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON.

THE CHINA MAIL,

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£10,000,000 WARSHIP.

U.S. NAVY'S NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER. "WONDERS OF SARATOGA.

The

States United

aircraft

SECTION.

milen

It is of Interest to note that

LOSS OF LIFE.

MORE DETAILS OF BOMBAY CYCLONE.

Bombay, Nov. 15.

According to the reports coming through, the storm which passed over the Bombay coast on Saturday was responsible for a big loss of life at sea.

WAB

The Electric Ship. The "Saratoga" herself is a vast electrical generating station. Never before has electric power been put to such multifarious

The Bombay Co-operative, Navi- uses afloat. Steam turbines operate the gation Company's 290-ton coastal steamer, ***Tukaram," dynamos, which have an output of passenger

on Saturday 180,000 horse-power. This power which left Bombay la transmitted to electric motors morning, encountered heavy sens coupled to the four propeller shafts, and while returning to port found- strong carrier "Saratoga," which was to be which drive the ship at a speed of cred suddenly, due to a

hour. The cyclone which she ran into 60 miles commissioned for trials on October forty 31, is the most remarkable warship "Saratoga" is therefore the highest-off Bombay, in 42 feet of water."-

She was carrying 82 passengers now in existence. Laid down seven powered and fastest warship of

and the crow comprised 54. a battle-cruiser of major tonnage in the world. years ago as

A search steamer, which 48,000 tons, to be armed with eight boilers of British design, Yarrow sent out, returned early this morn 16-in. guns, her construction was and White-Forster, are installed ing. She brought back only 18 members of the that dead suspended as a result of the Wash-in the "Saratoga" and her sister, passengers and ington Conference. Together with the "Lexington." Auxiliary to the crow, and reported

main driving units, there are up- bodies were washed up on the const a sister ship, the "Lexington," she wards of a thousand electric motors and the ship was found sunk in 42 was subsequently re-designed as an

on board, ranging from air-blowers foot of water, seven miles off the aircraft carrier.

By deleting the of 400 h.p. to tiny motors not much port of Hareshwar, on the coast.

Little hope is entertained of more heavy guns the displacement was larger than an egg-cup, which reduced to 33,000 tons, this being operate the delicate fire-control in-survivors being found.

struments. Every mechanical opera-

S.S. "Jayanti's" Fute? the maximum tonnage permissible tion in the ship, from propulsion to Another steamer, the "Jayanti," for a ship of the carrier type under peeling potator is performed by belonging to the Bombay Steam The The clectricity. Treaty.

searchlights, Navigation Company, sailed, on the Washington "Saratoga" is 10,000 tous larger mounted in the superstructure, have Saturday morning at the same time an illuminating power of 3% mil- for Dabol and another port on the than H.M.S. Eagle," our largest

lion candle power.

West Coust, with passengers and alrcraft carrier, and her length of

Seventy-two aeroplanes are car- crew numbering over 100.

She is now three days overdue 888 ft.-nearly 300 yards-exceeds ried in the apac tous hangars below by 28 ft. that of H.M.S. "Hood." deck, varying from tiny one-seater and has not been heard of since her

fighters to heavy bombers and departure. hitherto the longest warship afloat. torpedo planes, with a crew of three It is feared that the steamer met The "Saratoga's" upper deck is men. Aeroplanes are brought up the same fate as the "Tukaram," or fitted as an aerodrome, 880 ft. long from the hold to the flight deck by has been driven out to sea.

A vigorous search is being made. by 90 ft. in breadth. It is 60 ft. storeyed lifts. Single machines can

be flown off by means of a catapult, Great consternation prevails above the waterline, and has an area regardless of the direction of the among the friends and relatives of of five acres. American wits sug- wind. The ship will be manned by the passengers and anxious gest that the completion of this a crew of 1,200. hut, in addition, quiries are being made."

she will have about 250 aviation ship.adds a new State to the Union. ranks and ratinge, so that the total The flight deck is equipped with complement will be 1,450. So ex- landing nets and other devices tensive and elaborately fitted are

enable

the workshops in the lower com- which will, it is claimed,

partments. that they could, it is aeroplanes to fly off from and alight stated, build any type of heropiane, un the ship with perfect safety in complete with its motors. almost any weather. All the boiler led into 2 single uptakes are gigantic funnel casing, 120 ft. in

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American Doubts.

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Survivors' Story,

Bombay, Nov. 15. Further details of the "Tukaram" disaster give the casualties na 123.

The passengers were all Indians, Hindus and Moslems.

the Another coastal steamer, "Jayanti," which left Bombay on Dabol, 90 Saturday morning for Not content with making the miles south of Bombay, la still "Saratoga" the world's greatest missing.

of bodies.

diameter, through which ten rail-floating aerodrome, the American The search vessel "Rupavati" re- way trains could pass abreast. This designers have contrived to endow turned this morning without news funnel is elliptical in shape, and her with powerful fighting qualities of the missing vessel.

own. The hull is heavily The "Rupavati's" captain report- together with the gun turrets, of her bridge, and other tophamper is armoured against gunfire and anti-ed that he found the wreckage of placed on the extreme starboard side torpedo bulges of the British pat-the "Tukaram" and a large number

fitted along the greater of the ship, leaving the flight deck tern are

pur- part of the waterline. Eight 8-io. practically olear for aviation

arrangement of the guns with a range of twelve miles poses. This

was first adopted by are mounted in twin turrets. There upper works

are also twelve 5-in. anti-aircraft British naval designers in the

guns and four torpedo tubes. The carriers "Eagle" and "Hermes,"

"Saratoga" is therefore armed more heavily than a modern cruiser of the "County" class. Her con- to be

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Another boat, the "Kamalavati," has been sent to search for the "Jayanti."

The wreck of the "Tukaram" was found 60 miles south of Bombay,

Corpses Identified.

The corpses of the captain and chief officer have been identified.

Five survivors were brought back to Bombay to-day.

AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT sort, the "Lexington," is

ready in January.

American naval opinion as a whole is hostile to these ships on Interviewed, they said that, the account of their prodigious size, boat was returning to Bombay on vulnerability, and cost. By the Saturday evening, and at seven struck her commissioned time she is

the o'clock a huge wave "Saratoga" will have cost £10,000,- violently and she tilted dangerously. 000, a sum which would have paid Another giant wave followed and for four or five of the largest the vessel was virtually swallowed cruisers. A, Washington service up by the sea within a minute.

The captain, and everyone on journal says that "the huge size: of the two new carriers will be a board had not the least warning of: serious handicap to their efficiency. such a sudden fate. So valuable and vulnerable are they that the mere question of wreckage, drifted into Port Janjira, protecting them in warfare presents where they were saved.-"Times of

Ceylon." a grave problem."

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Friday, 9th December.

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Monday,

19th December.

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Monday,

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Friday,

16th December.

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TAMBA MARU

Monday,

5th December.

Friday.

Monday 12th December.

+ CEYLON MARU (Moji direct).

HARUNA MARU

OSAKA MARU (Moji direct)

RANGOON MARU

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Wednesday, Monday,

9th December.

16th December. 10th December.

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Бювель

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1.14th February..

.20th February...

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Thursday, 8th December. RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town. MANILA MARU

BOMBAY- Via Slarupore and Colombo.

CELEBES MARU (calls at Karachi..Sunday, 4th December.

ISHIKARI MARU

INDUS MARU

BORNEO MARU

.Saturday, 31st December.

Wednesday, 7th December.

.Tuesday, 20th December, .Friday, 23rd December.

Traday, 5th January.

....Friday, 23rd December.

DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND

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CALCUTTA-Via Singapore, Penang and Rangoon.

BINGO MARU

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Vis Japan Porta.

LONDON MARU (From Shanghai). Tuesday, 13th December. ALABAMA MARU

HAIPHONG-VI» 'KOIHOW & PAKHOL

TAIKWA MARU

MENADO MARU

Wednesday, 21st December.

Tuesday, 6th December, 10 m.ma. Tuesday, 20th December; 10 n.mle da

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HAMBURG maru

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TAKAO Via SWATOW & AMOY.

DELI MARU TAKAO-Direct.

BUSHO MARU KOHSHUN MARU DAIREN-via TAKAO.

BUSHO MARU

.Sunday, 4th December,

Saturday, 3rd December.

Sunday, 13th December.

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Friday, 9th December. Tuesday, 20th December.

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