An advertisement in this newspaper supplied more details about the activities of the Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kaisha. With her electrically lightened ships fitted out with air condition and all other modern requirements for passengers was a two-week mail service between Yokohama, London and Antwerp via Kobe, Moji, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang (outward bound), Colombo, Suez, Port Saïd and Marseille and backwards. The agents at Batavia , Semarang and Surabaya
The shipping company was building three steamships of each 12.000 gross register tonnage. Available for the voyage towards Europe were the steamships Katori Maru 10.526 grt, Kashima Maru 10.559 grt, Atsuta Maru 8.523 grt, Hirano Maru 8.520 grt, Kamo Maru 8.524 grt, Kitano Maru 8.512 grt, Mishima Maru 8.500 grt, Miyazaki Maru 8.500 grt, Hitachi Maru 6.716 grt, Iyo Maru 6.320 grt and Kaga Maru 6.301 grt.
