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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1425, 27 April 1912, Page 12

Germans seem to liavo a special faculty for managing great steamshin lines. Besides those huge corporations tho Ham-burg-American and the North German Llovtl Companies, thcro is another of almost equal magnitude, the "HamburgSud," which has just celebrated its fortieth birthday. Beginning with thrco small steamers of 2733 tons burden combined, the company notv lias a fleet of •18 steamers totalling 215,257 tons, frith ISC auxiliary oraft. In l'Jfl'J the company tarried 47,591 passengers. A traveller, writing from Japan lp tho "Christian licgister.' -says that, after ai) absence of three years, lie saw Uvo noticeiible change-: the glowing use of European costumes by men. and the increasing number of liquor establishment. .1 a pan, he says, is reaping the gains and paying tho penalties of progress. The "ni'ticablo changes" above described are doubtless both rowiut to he included , mhous the jcaaltioi of Japou'e uew ora,