After being held up in Japan by the authorities there for a few days, the Messageries Maritimes liner President Doumer is now expected to fie up at the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co/s Hongkew Wharf at about 730 o'clock this morning; pas-Sengers should be coming ashore "at the Customs Jetty about an hour later, In order to catch up on her schedule, the (French liner will be making a very short stay in port, for she is to sail for Marseilles at 1230 p.m, to-day, passengers being taken down to the ship in the tender Scot I which will be leaving the MIN, jetty on the French Bund at 10,30 o'clock this morning.
The President Doumer, after being detained near Shimonoseki for three days, left Japan on Tuesday for Shanghai, According to United Press, two members of her crew—M, Pierre Noel, cadet, and M, Theoriel Regnier, cook—were fined Y.S0 and Y10 respectively for taking photographs from the ship in a fortified area.
The police authorities at Shimonosaki are reported by United Press to have admitted that the two men were only interested in the photographs as photographs and that they were not actuated by any ulterior motives,
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