Although nothing serious happened when Japanese officers boarded the MIN. liner. Aramis. shortly after 2 pin. on Wednesday, a few hours efter the ship had left Hongkong or Shanghai, the very fact that she was forced to stop and that a Japánese officer wished to have certain details regarding the liner, is being considered so seriously by the French authorities' that Captain Remis, the skipper of the Aramis, was unable to receive _newspapermen when the ship arrived in port at 6 pin. yesterday, as a naval motor-boat was already waiting alongside to take him aboard Vice-Admiral Decoux's flagship, so. that the latter would receive a detailed account of the inci-Gent, as soon as possible.
It was nevertheless learned that the Aramis stopped immediately when she was ordered to do so by a Japanese manowar and a motorboat soon ' brought two officers and two armed marines aboard the French liner, only one of the officers trid the two privates coming up the gengway.—whilst- -the officer remained at the bottom of the stairs.
Th very broken English the Japanese officer demanded that a form which he presented and in which details regarding the ship, its owners, its nationality and its last port of call, be filled out.
The inquiring officer was then understood to have been told that it was quite evident that the Aramis was a French liner, easily distinguishable not only by a huge tricolor painted on both sides of the ship but also by its square funnels and that consequently no useful purpose could be served in filling out the the form as requested.
Seeing that he could obtain no further details, the Japanese officer politely took leave, after having remained on board for about 10 minutes. The Japanese warship which had ordered the French liner to stop, could not be identified but was described as one of the modern 5,000 ton cruisers of the 1926/1927 class, Whilst no official information could be gathered on the subject last night, reliable quarters are of the opinion that the French authorities will probably lodge a protest with the Jepanese government either today or Monday.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.