The Archive · 1936

LINER MAJESTIC SOLD 'TO SCRAPPERS

By SAPAJOU

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London, May 16.

The $6,800-ton Cunard-White Star liner Majestic was bought to-day by a Sheffield firm for breaking up. She was built in Hamburg for the Ham. burg-Amerika Line just before the War and was named Bismarck, but the passed Into British hands after the Armistice—Reuter, The world's fastest long-distance air service was inaugurated with the departure on May 16 of an Air France plane from Croydon to. Dakar, in French West Africa, via Paris, From Dakar, the new airway will be linked with "the company's. trans-Atlantic service to South Americ When the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary sails on her maiden voyage to New York on May 27, she will "carry what is described as "goodwill cargo" consisting of iMluminated addresses from the Mayors of the Cinque Ports—now seven, ramely, Hastings, Dover, Sandwich, New Romney, Hythe, Rye and Win-chelsea—to their namesake towns numbering $2 in the United States, here to-day. Known as a "crusading editor" for many years, he had long taken a lively interest in Far Eastern affairs and led vigorous fights for Tower trans: Pacific able rates and the removal of trade barriers between the nations "on each side of the Pacifie—United. Press.

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