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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1918, hy the Munaon Steamihip Line 



Volume XVI 



JANUARY, 1918 



Number 2 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



CUBAN SOLDIERS 



It is reported that 2,000 Cuban soldiers will 

 be sent to the Western front and that they 

 will be commanded by Colonels Pujol and 

 Sanguily. 



CUBAN HEROES DECORATED 

 Two young Cuban soldiers, Tro and Lopez 

 Rubio, recently returned from the front in 

 France, have been awarded medals by the 

 Cuban Government. 



INSTRUCTOR IN AVIATION 



It is reported that President Menocal has 

 cabled the French government asking that 

 Santiago Campuzano, Cuban aviator in the 

 French service, be permitted to return for the 

 purpose of acting as instructor to the Cuban 

 army aviation corps. 



CATTLE 



Dr. Clorovido Arias has been ordered by 

 President Menocal to join Dr. Cre.spo in the 

 United States for the purpose of buying 

 thoroughbred cattle for the government 

 breeding stations. 



NEW WIRELESS STATIONS 



It is reported that contracts have been 

 signed by the Cuban Government for the 

 purchase from an American firm of ten 

 wireless plants, six of which are to be of 

 5 kilowatts and the balance of 2 kilowatts. 



Four of the 5 kilowatt stations will be 

 erected at Santa Fe, Baracoa, Camaguey and 

 Santiago de Cuba and Caibarien. Cienfuegos 

 and Manzanillo will receive the 2 kilowatt 

 plants. 



NUEVA GERONA WIRELESS STATION 



The Post Office Department has been autho- 

 rized by presidential decree to reconstruct 

 the wireless station at Nueva Gerona. 

 According to plans already drawn up by the 

 department, the total cost of the work will 

 be about $21,011.76. 



CUSTOMS DECLARATIONS ON POSTAL 

 PARCELS FOR CUBA 



The U. S. Post Office Department has issued 

 the following order: 



Xotice is hereby given that for the future 

 it will be necessary to attach a customs decla- 

 ration to each package of merchandise mailed 

 in the United States and addressed for de- 

 livery in Cuba. 



In this connection, attention is invited to 

 Section 2, on page 103 of the Postal Guide 

 for July, 1917. 



Postmasters will please cause due notice 

 of the foregoing to be taken, and the widest 

 possible publicity to be given thereto. 



CUSTOMS RECEIPTS 



According to advices from the Havana 

 custom house, the receipts for the month of 

 December, 1917, were $2,624,577.82 against 

 $3,074,201.18 for the previous month. The 

 decrease was due to the limitation of imports 

 of food products. 



The total receipts for the year 1917 were 

 $29,194,333.30, against $28,322,898.72 for the 

 12 months of 1916. The increase is notable 

 and worthy of special mention on account of 

 conditions imposed by the war. 



