Merchant Navy
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

A new transatlantic liner
SAINT-NAZAIRE, September 13. - The imminent construction of a new liner for the New York line by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique has been announced. It will be an improved Paris.
The dimensions will be: length, 231 meters; width, 23 meters; depth on keel or upper deck, 18 m. 45; draft, 9 m. 50; displacement, 40,250 tons; power, approximately 50,000 horsepower; speed, 23 knots.
It will be built at the Penhcët shipyards.

Notice to sailors
CHERBOURG, September 13. The light apparatus of the buoy anchored 3 miles off the West Pass of Cherbourg, is reported as once again exhibiting irregularities in operation. The normal operation of the apparatus will be restored shortly.

The Collignon pier fire is temporarily extinguished.

THE "WHY NOT". The Pourquoi-Pas, commanded by Doctor Charcot, has completed its summer mission. Its hydrographic and geological research in August was hampered by bad weather.
The Pourquoi-Pas, after undergoing some repairs in Cherbourg, will return to Saint-Servan where it will winter.

A DISAPPEARANCE.
Le Havre, September 13. - The captain of the steamer Amiral Jaureguiberry, who arrived in Le Havre, noticed on August 14, when leaving the port of Santos, the disappearance of the assistant cook Gaston Lepère.

INJURED ON BOARD. Justin Hegron, stoker aboard the steamer Seine, was admitted to hospital. He had suffered bruises after falling on the deck of the ship.

COMMERCIAL MARITIME COURT. LE HAVRE, September 12. - The Commercial Maritime Court sentenced today to six days in prison, without suspension, René Rehum, greaser on board the steamer Iowa, for having refused three times, on August 19, to take the watch; to fifteen days in prison, without suspension, the Senegalese Fara Gonis, stoker on board the Iowa, for having fired a revolver at a comrade and having committed assault on a first stoker, to fifteen days in prison, suspended.
BREST, September 12. The Commercial Maritime Court, presided over by Mr. Le Poncin, principal administrator of the Maritime Registration, met yesterday, to judge the deckhand Francis Le Fustec, aged 32, originally from Saint-Coulomb (Ille-et-Vilaine) embarked on board the steamer Jacques Schiaffino, from Algiers, accused of insults and assaults against the chief engineer and the second captain of this vessel.
On Sunday, August 31, at around 5:30 p.m., at the port of Oran, where the Jacques' Schiaffino was loading a cargo of wine, Mr. Le Gallais, chief engineer, registered in Le Havre, ordered the stoker Lebrun to go to work instead of eating his soup before the time stipulated by the regulations. The deckhand Le Fustec, taking up the stoker's cause, grossly insulted and struck the engineer officer twice on the head. As the latter then returned to the mess, Le Fustec struck him again and, from behind, gave him a hard slap.
Mr. Delaporte, second captain, having arrived, Le Fustec also rushed towards him, insulted him and then grabbed him by his shirt which he tore.
The Jacques Schiaffino having sailed for Brest, it was only upon its arrival in this port that its captain filed a complaint against Le Fustec with the Maritime Registration Office.
The accused had already been convicted in the merchant navy for desertion.
He denied having insulted and struck the chief engineer and persisted in maintaining that the latter had been the first to push him. He limited himself to pushing the second captain away by grabbing him by the shirt.
Mr. Pellé defended Le Fustec who, unanimously found guilty by the Court, benefited from mitigating circumstances and was sentenced to 2 months in prison and a fine of 25 francs.