84 



CUBANS OF TO-DAY 



and known as the "Tripartite Claims, " and 

 the case, no less famous, of the Ports 

 Company of Cuba, known as the "Com- 

 pania del Dragado. " In regard to the 

 latter question it was the judgment of the 

 Cuban Government, sanctioned without 

 dissent by the Supreme Court of Cuba, that 

 it was the most important case of its kind 

 that had arisen in Cuba and possibly in any 

 country in America and offered more 

 difficulties than any other in its study and 

 solution. 



Serior Torriente is the first Vice-presi- 

 dent of the Association and also of the 

 National Council of Veterans of the War 

 of Independence; Vice-president of the 

 Cuban Society of International Law, and 

 one of the four members for Cuba in The 

 Hague Tribunal of Arbitration; he is a 

 member also of the High International 

 Commission for Uniform Legislation which 

 holds its sessions in Washington. He is 

 the Chairman of the Committee on For- 

 eign Affairs in the Senate of Cuba. 



On the declaration of war by Cuba upon 

 the Imperial Governments of Germany and 



HI vS PANIC NOTES 



