AMERICAN MAILS FOR EUROPE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 9

AMERICAN MAILS FOR EUROPE.

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST FOREIGN SHIPS. (BT CABLK—PBEBB ASBOCIATIOS—COPTSIGHT.J (AUSTEAUAN AKD K.Z. CABLB ASBOCIATIOH./ WASHINGTON, July 11. Despite protests from London and Paris against the recently-inaugurated practice of shipping American mails to Europe by American steamers, which causes delays, the Post Office Department has announced that it: will continue the practice hereafter. The protest arose specifically over the holding for 48 hours a mail, which should have been sent by the Cunard liner Aqtritania, so that it could be sent by the United States liner Leviathan. Paria and London business men, who expected the mail by the Aquatania, declare that they are suffering losses as the Leviathan's mail has not yet arrived. There have been intimations from abroad that foreign governments will probably make reprisals and hold mails for America for shipment by steamers flying their own flags. The Post Office Department explains that foreign governments have done this in the past and the United States is within its rights in this effort to increase the revenue of the American merchant marine. [An article dealing with the American Post Office Department's discrimination against foreign ships appeared in the commercial column is of "The Press" some weeks ago.]