Possible Effect on Shipping

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9020, 22 April 1898, Page 2

Possible Effect on Shipping

'Irfoco Mail Service, SYDNEY-OPINIONS.;' THE ADMIRAL INTERVIEWED. HE ENDORSES THE POPULAE YERDICT. MORE "ALABAMA EXPLOITS,"' Sydneit, April 12. In'reference; to the effect the war .is likely to,have on the 'Frisco' mail service, the Postmaster General states that no doubt efforts will be made to maintain the service as at present. In shipping circles it is believed that the American company will take the initiative- and have its vessels registered at a British port, or hand over the trade entirely to British boats. The Admiral, who leaves at the end of the month with H.M.S ' Royal Arthur on a visit to Neff Zealand, and who was formerly on the American station, in the course of an inter-, view expressed the opinion America should triumph easily. That nation has money, resources, and plenty of go, while Spain has'none- of these. The conflict should not be of long duration. America will without donbt immediately invade Cuba, and once that is accomplished, what could Spain hope for? .Referring to the fact that neither country is a party to the treaty of Paris, he said that the world would probably have to witness another series of Alabama exploits.