Singularly enough, less than twenty-four hours before, on the 18th, the auxiliary steamer St. Louis, Captain Goodrich, lately one of the American Transatlantic liners, had been close in with the mouth of this port, which had hitherto lain outside our sphere of operations, and had made a determined and successful attempt to cut the telegraph cable leading from Santiago to Jamaica.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
Yet no general outcry is raised against the general safety of the transatlantic liners.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
No explosives are carried on these great liners; they only take passengers and the mails.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain