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Show CHINESE'tO LAUNCH TWO SHIPS FOR U. 'S. SHANGHAI, April 2. Two big cargo carriers of four being built in Shanghai by the Klang Nan dock ana engineering company for the United States shipping board will be launched April 0. and work is to be pressed on tho remaining two in order that they may be put into service early this summer. All the shipbuilding work being done for tho United tSates shipping board in China and Japan is probably will bo completed within a comparatively compara-tively short time. Half of thirty vessels ves-sels under construction in Japanese shipyards have been launched and work Is being pushed on those remaining. re-maining. The first two of the boats launched in Shanghai are the Mandarin and the' Celestial. The two to follow thorn"! are the Oriental and the Cathay. The four are of 10,500 tons deadweight- oo |