WORLD CRUISE.
TROOPSHIP LEAVES SOUTHAMPTON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. Sept. 12. The 1 troopship City of Marseilles, which left Southampton yesterday, will have sailed round the world —approximately 29,000 miles—when she gets back to England in December. She will first land troops at Bermuda, where other troops will be embarked for Tientsin. After passing through the Panama Canal the City of Marseilles will call at Honolulu. This will be the first time British troops have landed at Honolulu, and special permission has been obtained from the American Government, for trro vessel to stay 24 hours to coal. On the homeward trip the troops now at Tientsin will be shipped to India, and others now in India will be brought to England.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 9
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121WORLD CRUISE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 9
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