The Captain then wirelessed for} assistance and the stowaways were forced into submission by being deprived of food.
The officers, while emphasizing that the crew never participated in the trouble, think it possible that some of them assisted the stowaways to get on board the liner.
Most of the passengers discount the idea of danger and declare that was not necessary to summon a warship The stowaways on the liner Jervis Bay were charged at the Police Court to-day on five events, including arson.
Captain Daniels, of the str. Jervis Bay, giving evidence, said that the wireless messages sent from the ship were due to the nervousness of the passengers. He explained that he wirelessed for immediate a: istence when smoke commenced to sue from the ventilators in the room where the stowaways were imprisoned because the electric ables vital to steering ran near the room and if they were severed by the lowaways' crow-bar or by fire, the: ship would be set adrift.
Another officer stated that a Jnrge oil-fuel tank beneath the room might have been set on fire, in which case there: would have been little hope for the Jervis Bay.
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