Jersey City, Jan. 23.
The President Lines' steamer President Adams arrived here yesterday after an eventful passage from the Far East.
Captain Gregory Cullen reported that the ship had been stopped five times by British warships during the vessel's world cruise.
A British cutter fired a shot and came alongside in Gibraltar, he said.
British authorities at Alexandria confiscated a cargo of 700 tons of Japanese silk consigned to Switzerland and also several bags of mail destined for Germany.
The shot fired at Gibraltar was a blank, Captain Cullen said, byt it was of "no consequence" since the firing resulted from a mix-up in signals. Many of the passengers, however, said that a real shell passed over the ship.
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