The Union-Castle Company's new mail vessel, Capetown Castle, a sister ship to the Athlone Castle and Stirling Castle, is to be launched at Belfast on September 23 next. The directors of ihe company, considering it most appropriate that the naming ceremony at the launch should be po formed by the wife of the chief citizen of Capetown, have invited the Mayor and Mayoress, Mr. and Mrs, J, D. Low, to come to Eng-
American flag ships on the North Atlantic are to be put on a parity with those of the great European maritime nations, as a consequence of the signing at Washington recently of a temporary agreement between the United States Lines and the Federal Maritime Commission This was the statement made by John M. Franklin, president of the United States Lines, in commenting on the results of many weeks of conferences between members of the Maritime Commission and representatives of the United States Lines. Mr. land for this purpose. Franklin, who complimented Chair-With the approval of the City man Kennedy and the other members Council this imitation has been ac- of the Commission, said: cepted, and Mr. and Mrs, Low will come to England by the Edinburgh Castle, leaving Capetown on September 3, as the guests of the company.
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