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Biggest today: Majestic (German built, British owned). Fastest: Europa (German built, owned). Last week this technical superiority of Teutons on the sea was challenged at last and definitely by their immemorial enemies, the French...
...build anything less than a liner which can be definitely advertised as the "largest and fastest in the world." Both ships will be of some 70,000 to 75,000 tons, exceeding the Majestic by upwards of 15,000 tons. Lurks one hidden factor: since neither Bremen nor Europa have ever been run at the maximum speed, both German ships have something in reserve for the great transatlantic race of 1933-34. Not until then will the new Cunard and French challengers be ready...
...story: a boatman of Wan Hsien becomes embroiled in an argument with an overbearing American who, during the altercation, falls off the quay, is drowned. Lying in the harbor is H. M. S. Europa, whose commander, immediately upon hearing of the accident, declares that a white man has been murdered and demands as restitution a fitting funeral, indemnity, the lives of two members of the boatman's guild. If he is not given satisfaction he will destroy the town. As he threatens, his great grey fortress slides forward and the hard mouths of his guns glower down upon the frightened...
...months the Cunard Line has been explaining that the big obstacle to constructing a monster British speed rival to Germany's Bremen and Europa was the matter of insurance. Insurance companies in the U. S. and Britain, boat-shy since the mysterious $3,000,000 fire on the Europa (TIME, April 8, 1929), were either too poor or too nervous to write a $30,000,000 policy. Last week the British treasury and the Board of Trade came to the rescue. They agreed to underwrite that margin of insurance on the great Cunarder's construction which cannot...
Since the Empress of Britain is the largest ship built in Britain since the War (though smaller than such post War leviathans as the French liner lie de France and Germany's Bremen and Europa) the British Royal Family is patriotically cooperating to secure maximum public notice. Thus Princess Mary announced herself "enchanted" last week, and next month Edward of Wales will superintend the launching...