2 DECEMBER 1932, Page 6

No vessel that ever crossed the Atlantic will arouse such

hopes so anxious as the Cont6 di Savoia', which left Genoa on her maiden voyage on Wednesday. The great army of the seasick in every land (myself not least) has its mind and thoughts concentrated on that gyroscopic equipment which, till it is proved a failure, permits the claim to be made that the liner will never develop. more than the almost, imperceptible' list of three degrees. It is an astonishing fact that after a century of steamships,- seasickness, despite all the professed remedies, should be as prevalent as ever it was, and that doctors should be no more immune from it than farriers or film-stars.

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