FLOATING PALACE.

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1927, Page 5

FLOATING PALACE.

FOR THE ATLANTIC. France Takes the Lead. (Received June 20. at 11.30 p.m.) (Times Cable.) LONDON, June 20. The Times Le Havre correspondent eays: —France seems successfully to have out-luxuried everything afloat with her. ne,w Le Compagnie Generate Trans-Atlantique forty-three thousand ton liner, Il De France. This is the largest liner constructed since the war. Her designers apparently have aimed to make the passengers when aboard forget that they are on a ship,

The features include a chapel accmo modating eighty persons, also a striking marble reception hall. There is electric lighting, giving the effect of softened sunlight. There are beautiful statu-osj and marble pillars, also Sevres vases. The grand drawingroom is entirely in lacquer. The din-ing-room is the largest on any steamer. It accommodates seven hundred out of the 1658 passengers which the vessel will carry. Three seaplanes, which, will proceed to shore when the steamer is .within a reasonable distance of the coast, will mean shortening the voyage for those passengers who are in a hurry. The vessel shortly makes her maiden voyage to New York, after which she enters the Le Havre —Plymouth-New York service, Excursionists from all parts of France inspected the vessel.