The American Post Office Department issued a curious order last
week, withdrawing from the Cunard liners all the mail except those letters which had been specially ' marked for particular ships. Afterwards the order Was cancelled. The general belief was that this • action of the Post Office was an answer to the enterprise Of the Cunard Company in competing with American. Ships on the New York-Havana route. The Post Office itself has repudiated this deduction. So we are left mystified, but it is evident that the Post Office officials have something in their minds _against Great Britain. "One of them (according to the New YOrk Correspondent of the "Times) has pointed out that the Olynipie ' brought- 15,000 bags of mail to 'America on her last pasSage, whereas- the American Leviathan' brought only 4,500. Americans seem to think that there it a policy in Great Britain of " squeezing out American ships from the mail business."
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