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Cruise By “ Bremen ”
Cancelled
QUITE a Stir was caused in Pacific Islands and Australian ports recently when it was announced that the huge German liner Bremen (51,731 tons) would visit Australia and South Sea ports in March and April next. Port Moresby, Sydney, Melbourne, Wellington, Auck land, Suva, and Apia were especially men
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Tourists for this round-the-world cruise were to be booked mostly in the United States. But when the American stock markets fell to dismal .levels early in November it was found that many Bre men bookings were cancelled, and the shipping company thereupon decided to cancel the cruise altogether.
The German liner Reliance (19,821) will make a world cruise early in 1938 and will follow the same itinerary. She will not create the same interest, how ever, because she actually is smaller than the P. and O. and Orient liners which are sent on South Seas cruises from Australian ports.