Passengers and mails will travel down-river this morning in the French sloop Dumont d'Urville to board the Messageries Maritimes liner Felix Roussel, which arrived at the safe anchorage near Woosung yesterday from Kobe. Between four and five o'clock this afternoon, passengers landing at Shanghai should be coming off a tender from the sloop the Customs Jetty.
Passengers will board the tender Alexandra before 6.45, am. to-day, and will then be ferried out, as usual, and transferred to the French sloop for the journey down-river. Heavy baggage and the mails for Europe will be taken down by a tug and lighters. The Felix Roussel sails for Marseilles, via the usual ports, this afternoon.
At 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon, the Java-China-Japan Line s. Tjisaroea is also to sail from the safe anchorage, and she will be carrying passengers, mails and cargo for Hongkong, Batavia and Java ports. In the case of the Tjisaroea, no naval escort is being provided, but as usüal the tender, which leaves the Customs Jetty at 8 a.m., will be flying the British and Netherlands flags. Cargo for the Tjisaroea will be taken down in lighters which will leave the Nanking Road jetty at 6 am.
290 sels crust ili The s. Steel Traveller, the first large ocean-going cargo voss: to reach Shanghai since the outbreak of the hostilities, tied up yesterday at the Shanghai and Hongkew Co.s Pootung Wharf.
Pictures show the vessel as she neared the wharf, and. below, as members of the crew prepared to disembark.
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