AVOIDING WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 9

AVOIDING WAR.

TOURIST TRAFFIC.

DIVERTED TO DOMINION.

BREMEN'S CRUISE CANCELLED

Evidence of the effect of the Sino--Ta panose war in diverting tourists who normally would l>e travelling to the East, will be noted on the arrival at Auckland on Sunday evening of the C anadian-Australasian Line motor ship Aorangi from ancouver. The Aorangi brings .r2ft nassengers, 27<5 of whom are disembarking here. Among both through and landing passengers arc a large number of tourists. The Aorangi is the first trans-Pacific liner to lie affected, but liookings indicate that the diverted traffic will be sustained in both the Aorangi and Niagara for several months. Similarly the Matson J.ine vessel Monterey, which left the Pacific co'ast on November 9 for New Zealand, is bringing a heavy list, and it is estimi;t«d that her passengers will number (SOO when she j reaches Auckland on November 2(i. In addition to tourists, however, she is bringing the last large quota of Coronation visitors who have been spending an extended holiday in the l'nitc<' States and Europe. The Matson Lin« anticipates heavy traffic until April at least, largely owing t<r the Far Eastern position. Second of the short summer cruise ships to call at Auckland will be the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's fine 23.428-ton Strathmore, which is due here on November 19 from Brisbane. Subsequent short cruises will l>e made by other ships of the P. and O. and Orient Lines, the last, the Strathmore. on a second visit, leaving Auckland on March 12, I!>3H. World Cruises Begin. Between two and three weeks after the short summer cruises have concluded, the first of the world cruise ships will enter New Zealand waters. At present cruises are planned by the Cunard White Star liner Franconia. the Canadian Pacific Railway's Empress of Britain, the Hamburg-Amerika Line's Reliance, and |M>ssibly the lie de France, of the Compagnie (Jenerale Transatlantique. Details of the movements of the He de France have not yet been received in Auckland, although it was stated by a representative of the line that the ship definitely will visit Auckland cither at the end of the present tourist season or at the beginning of the next. Subsequent to the cable message published two days ago, inferring that the giant Nordde ut seher-Lloyd Bremen might not pursue her world cruise, the Auckland agents for the line. Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane, this morning received cabled advice from New York that the Bremen's cruise had been cancelled. The announcement will be received with general disappointment in Auckland, as the Bremen, apart from her interest as an Atlantic racer, would have lieen the largest and fastest merchant ship ever to be in these waters. That record will now go to the Empress of Britain, also a former North Atlanticrecord breaker, although her 42,348 tons gross is well below the .>1,6.5(1 tons gross of the Bremen. The lie de France registers 43,4.">0 tons, and in turn she will take the merchant tonnage record from the Empress of Britain.

Among other records made by the Bremen would have lieen that of the greatest length of any vessel coming into the Waitemata. The lengths of the Bremen, Tie de France and Empress of Britain are 898.7 ft, 703.7 ft and 733.3 ft respectively.