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Show NEW JAPANESE LINER IS LAUNCHED AT VICTORIA Victoria. May 27. Amid the fluttering flutter-ing of released pigeons and fountains "of scattered colored papers, the new Osaka Shosen Kalsha liner, Seattle Maru. was slid into the' water at Kabe the day before the sailing of the steamer Aki Maru, which reached port here last night. The new steamer steam-er is to run to Puget sound in connection connec-tion with the Milwaukee railroad, and was christened by the daughter of Mr. Xakahashl, president of the Osaka-Shosen Osaka-Shosen Kalsha. The new vessel is of 11,000! tons displacement. r The next steamer of tho line, the Chicago Maru, will be launched iu three months. |