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JERVIS BAY STOWAWAYS
PASSENGER'S LETTER HOME.
A brief account of the trouble caused
recently by stowaways on the s.s. Jervis
Bay is contained in a letter by a passen-
ger, Miss Lois Smith, to her mother,
Mrs. Neil Smith, of New Town. Miss
Smith went to England by tho Jervis
Bay on holiday, and may take up secre-
tarial duties in England. An extract
from the letter, dated Juno 24, and writ-
ten 15 hours from Colombo, states:-"I
expect you saw In the paper that there
was trouble on the ship. It was not a
mutiny, but somo eight stowaways be-
haved so badly that they had to be
locked up. They got out of their hand-
cuffs and the men just battened them
down in a hatchway aft. They burned
all their bedding one night and threw
everything they coûTd lay hands on out
of the portholes, ovon the food and
plates. The captain wirelessed for a
warboat to take them off, as it was a
responsibility. Last night she arrived.
It was thrllllngly exciting. About 15
marines and half a dozen sailor» came
off in a cutter and boarded our ship.
They marched through the lower deck
and tried to got tlio men out, but they
were so troublesome that they left thom
and turned the hoso on thom. I was
sorry they decided to leave . thom or
witii tho guard; it would have been se
iiucli moro thrilling if there had been a
vee scrap. "Wo are all looking forwarc
o Colombo to-morrow."
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