GERMAN CHALLENGE
TO CUNARD’S BEST. / United Press Association.—By Electn TeJegia pii.—Copy nght.) LONDON, July 1. The Nortli German Shipping Company’s Lloyd 46,b0J ton liner “Bremen'’ arrives at Southampton to-day to receive her finishing touches,in the \yorldjs largest dry dock, before entering the North Atlantic service. She is .-challenging ' the Cunarder “Mauretania” for-tile ...Jilue I'iband of the Atlantic.' The “Bremen” is' a sister shij) to the .“Euro’pa,” which a fire damaged at Hamburg last March; Prior to this uCw Leviathan’s de-* pafture from Bremerihaven, a test was carried out with; "a compressed air for laurihbing the seaplane which is carried on the liner’s platform between -'the' funnels, for the purpose of conveying-mails a day in advance of the steamer’s arrival in port. The catapult successfully launched the plane into the air, a high speed being attained ip barely two seconds. ’ . 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1929, Page 3
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140GERMAN CHALLENGE Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1929, Page 3
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