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Four days later France's President Albert Francois Lebrun zipped out of Paris in a special Bugatti Automotrice boat-train made by Bugatti Automobile Co. In three hours and 15 minutes he was in Cherbourg, 230 mi. away. This remarkable time advertised the fact that Cherbourg has already speeded up its boat-train service to Paris from 6½ to 4½ hr., will further speed it with Automotrices. President Lebrun's job last week was to open a new $8,000,000 deep water port and maritime station for France...
Aboard the Dutch Achilles, Captain Schoofs peeled off his burnt clothes, borrowed a uniform from the Dutch captain and was carried to Cherbourg where he briskly stepped ashore. "With extraordinary rapidity," he cried, "the electric wiring propagated the blaze! Fire broke out in several widely separated parts of the ship all at once...
...been sabotage by secret foreign agents." Much flustered, French Minister of Merchant Marine Léon Meyer called such an-explanation "too easy," suggested off his own bat that fires on modernistically decorated liners might be "due to the use of too exotic woods." He rushed off to Cherbourg "to institute an inquiry which I promise shall be searching and severe...
...after the Atlantique's hulk reached Cherbourg last week fire broke out at Le Havre aboard the 22-year-old France, recently withdrawn from trans-Atlantic service by the French Line as "too old." Le Havre firemen dashed aboard at 2:30 a. m., put out the blaze after two hours of smart work. At Saigon in French Indo-China the French liner Angkor was held up by a cracked propeller blade...
Dirty weather began as soon as the ship left Cherbourg. The second day out the great hull plowed into mountainous grey-streaked combers and a 60-m. p. h. head wind. Speed was cut to 7 knots, just enough to maintain steerage but so vast is the Majestic that first-class passengers remained in comparative comfort. At lunch time she creaked violently twice, a shudder ran down the ship. Few passengers noticed...