THE CUBA REVIEW 



to the new budeet law which has been 

 prepared and will go ro Congress 

 shortly. 



The nomiuations are. Cesar Piuto. transferred 

 from Belgium to the Republic of Argentine; Fran- 

 cisco Zavas Alfonso from Antwerp to Brussels; 

 Manuel Marquez Sterling fiom the Argentine Re- 

 public to be minister resident to the United States 

 of Brazil. , . . ^ 



Mariano Aranburu Machado, nommattd minister 

 resident to Chile. Benjamin Giberga, formerly con- 

 sul-general at Shanghai, and acting charge d af- 

 faires recently transferred as consul-general at 

 Monte'video, to be minister resident in the republic 

 Df Uruguay and Aniceto Valdivia to be minister 

 resident to'Norway. It was expected that the latter 

 was to be sent to Rome. The legation which the 

 President requested has been already approved by 

 the Senate. 



The seventh anniversary 

 May 20th of the establishment of 



Celebration. the Cuban republic in 1902 

 was celebrated with more 

 than the usual enthusiasm on May 2U. 

 The principal event was tlie review ai 

 Columbia by President Gomez of tne 

 new army. Four thousand infantry and 

 •cavalry paraded, under command of 

 <]^eneral Pino Guerra. They presented a 

 jine apoerance. 



Former Governor Magoon cabled his 

 congratulations on the success of the 

 new Cuban government, which act of 

 thoughtfulness was very generally ap- 

 preciated. The public was entertained at 

 the palace by Mrs. Gomez and her 

 daughters. 



May 5 President Gomez 



Wireless signed a decree annulling 



Concessions the concession granted the 



Annulled. United Fruit Company, by 



a decree of the Provisional 



Governor, to erect a wireless station at 



Cape San Antonio. It is understood that 



the company has already expended a 



large sum on the work, as tlie permission 



was granted in September, 1907. 



President Gomez has also annulled the 

 privilege conceded the De Forest Wire- 

 less Company to operate a wireless sta- 

 tion in the Vedado. 



Sehor Castellanos, the President's pri- 

 vate secretary, gave as a reason for these 

 decrees that it is the policy of the gov- 

 ernment to hold wireless telegraphy a 

 government function, and that privileges 

 granted by President Palma and Gover- 

 nor Magoon were revocable at any time. 

 The government wants its own wireless 

 installation, and will not tolerate any 

 other wireless stations within the terri- 

 tory of the republic. 



The beginning of some public works 

 at Nuevitas is asked for to afford em- 

 ployment to many who are now idle 

 owing to the sugar mills having finished 

 grinding. The President will conimuni- 



Senor Martin Morua Delado, Presidente del 

 Senado de Cuba y Senador por la Provincia de 

 Santa Clara. 



The President of the Cuban Senate and Senator 

 from Santa Clara Province. 



cate with a iirm which long since pro- 

 posed to I)uild a railroad in that section. 



English 

 Tuition, 

 Praised. 



"La Escuela Moderna," 

 published on April 30, de- 

 votes three pages exclu- 

 sively to the teaching of 

 English in the public 

 schools of Cuba under the provincial su- 

 pervisor. Miss Abbie Phillips. It says: 

 "The teaching of the English language 

 in the public schools of the city and 

 province of Havana during the past two 

 years has obtained a high grade of prog- 

 ress under the intelligent supervision of 

 Miss Phillips. The practical-objective 

 method adopted in October, 1908, has 

 given excellent results. The attractive 

 manner and the professional spirit in 

 which this method has been presented 

 has won the co-operation of all the 

 teachers and pupils, who have come to 

 regard the English work of the schools 

 as sessions both as an advantage and a 

 pleasure. 



"In the system taught in the public 

 schools the child is compelled to describe 

 each action in English during the first 

 year, and has at the end of that time 

 acquired a vocabulary of from 1,000 to 

 1,500 words." 



New Post Offices. 



A money order department has been 

 added to the post office at Yara, Oriente 

 Province. 



Post offices have been established at 

 Playa de la, Esperanza, Pinar del Rio 

 Province, at i\Tayajigua and at Aguada 

 de Pasajeros, Santa Clara Province. 



