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Show BUILD SHIPS FOR tJ. S TOKIU. The Eastern Sword, tho last of the thlrt -three steamships to be laid down for the I'nited States Shipping board, has been completed at the Uruga yards, according to a report issued by the shipping bureau of the department of communications. The aggregate tonnage of the thirty-three thirty-three shipping board vessels built in Japanese yards Is 273,350 tons The ( steel used in the construction of the vessels ordered by the United States shipping board was partly supplied to Japan by the United Slates in ex-change ex-change for the construction of the ships |