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"ALL AT.OUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1918, by the Munaon Steamahip Line 



Volume XVI 



MARCH, 1918 



Nu\:ber 4 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



POSTAL CENSORSHIP 



President Menocal of Cuba has issued a de- 

 cree establishing a postal censor bureau. The 

 Director General of Communications is au- 

 thcrized to organize the service, and treasury- 

 funds to the amount of $150,000 are to be ap- 

 plied on expenditures. Sr. Miguel A. Mon- 

 talvo, Chief of the Bureau of Postal Affairs, 

 has been appainted Chief Censor by the 

 Director General of Communications. Capt. 

 Goelet, who organized the postal censorship 

 in the United States, has been sent to Cuba by 

 the American Government for the purpose of 

 aiding the authorities to establish a similar 

 service in Cuba. 



HAVANA CONSUL-GENERAL 



Mr. James Linn Rodgers has been trans- 

 ferred from the post which he has so long oc- 

 cupied as consul-general in Havana, to Mon- 

 treal, Canada. 



NAVAL HOSPITAL BILL 



At the session of the House of Representa- 

 tives of the Cuban Congress a bill was passed 

 providing for the founding of a naval hospital 

 for which an appropriation of $80,000 is al- 

 lowed . 



ENEMY TRADING LIST 



The War Trade Board announces that the 

 following names have been removed from the 

 Enemv Trading List: 



Manuel Pi, Habana, Cuba. 



German Rodrigaez, Habana, Cuba. 



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SUGAR EXPORTS PERMITTED 



President Menocal lias signed a decree, 

 which provides: 



First — For the annulment of all applica- 

 tions for permits to export and ship sugar 

 made to him and to the sugar export com- 

 mittee. 



Second — For the authorization of the fol- 

 lowing exportations to Spam, refined sugar, 

 3,000 tons; semi-refined, 7,000 tans; other 

 classes, 7,000 tons. To Alexico, refined, 

 1,000 tons; semi-refined, 7,000 tons; other 

 classes, 7,000 tons. To other pan-American 

 countries, refined, 1,000 tons; semi-refined, 

 1,500 tons; current, 1,500 tons, and other 

 classes 4,100 tons. 



The decree further state? that all applica- 

 tions for permission to expcit sugar that ere 

 made to the sugar export committee, should 

 express in detail the class and quantity of 

 the .sugar that it is sought to export, port of 

 shipment, destination and the name of the 

 vessel in which it is to be shipped. 



APPROPRIATIONS 



President Menocal has signed two a]:pro- 

 priation bills, one for $50,000 for work on the 

 new capitol and the other for $400,000 for the 

 presidential palace, recently acqu'red from 

 the Provincial government. 



BRITISH VICE-CONSUL 



Aut'iorization has been granted to John 

 Mason to act as British Vice-Consul in 

 Havana to take the flice of Arthur Sherwin 

 who has been transferred. 



