New York, Dec. 22.
The American President Lines announced last night that it had leased several new ships from the United States Lines for the Far East run only and that the United States Lines would retain the operation of the ships along the American coasts and through the Panama Canal.
Trips through the canal will be made monthly instead of weekly in the future, the announcement said. The ships, City of Newport News, City of Los Angeles, City of Norfolk, and City of San Francisco, will call at Hongkong, Manila, Penang ana Singapore on the Far East run.—United Press.
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