Tokyo, Mar. 17.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has decided to inaugurate a direct, monthly steamship service between Japan and the Philippines. The inauguration will take place about the middle of April The Takao Maru, 4300 tons, will be placed on the route for the time bein, ent, the Company is operat-service between Japan and pines, with Nagasaki, epu and Davao as ports of call. According to the new plan, the Nagasaki-Manila trip will be covered in a week instead of the present three weeks.
e Santos Maru, 7,300 tons, now serving the South American line, will also be transferred to the Manila service in the future.—Reuter
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