When the "M" class superseded the India and China class she was put on the Bombay mail run till the war, throughout which she served ay a naval hospital ship. At the cessation of hostilities she was fitted up as a transport, and used for troops, back to England. During this period she broke the record from London to Bombay completing the voyage in a little over 17 days—a time that still holds.
In 1920 she underwent an entire refit, and was again put on the Bombay mail: service, until lately, when she was sold for breaking up to the Osaka Kaiji Kabushiki Kaisha, Messrs. Summers & Ca, of Kobe, negotiating the sale.
TaaNsLATION into Japanese of the complete works of William Shakespeare, numbering 34 different volumes, is the fruit of 43 years labour by Dr. Yuzo Tsubouchi, honorary professor of Waseda University and authority on literature of the East and West. Some admirers of Dr. Tsubouchi even go the length of saying that some of his translations have a better effect than the original.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.