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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



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Volume XVI 



JUNE, 1918 



Number 7 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



COMPULSORY MILITARY^ SERVICE BILL 



Legislation making military' service obliga- 

 tory was urged by President Alenocal in his 

 message to the eighth Cuban Congiess. The 

 bill has not yet been passed and it is thought 

 that the President will establish the service 

 by means of a decree, if the bill is not passed 

 by Congress. 



INDEPENDENCE DAY IN CUBA 



May twentieth last, the sixteenth anniver- 

 sary of Cuba's independence, was celebrated 

 throughout the Island of Cuba and this year 

 the "win the war" spirit predominated ni the 

 various features of the big celebration. In 

 addition to felicitations by the members of 

 the diplomatic corps of Havana, the capital 

 witnessed a military parade and review 

 through streets bedecked with the flags of 

 the Allies. A naval review was held under 

 the guns of the historic Mcrro Castle and 

 there were public addresses, concerts and 

 general cessation of business. 



FRENCH MINISTER TO CUBA 



Count Jules le Clerq, French Minister to 

 Cuba, has retired from office on account cf 

 ill health and will return to France. He will 

 be succeeded by M. Rosnard, who was French 

 consul at Frankfort, Germany, at the out- 

 break of the war. 



NEW SCHOOLS 



President Menocal has signed a decree 

 creating twenty-six new public schools in the 

 Provinces of Camaguey and IVIatanzas. 



FOOD ADMINISTRATION 



President Menocal has appointed Sefior 

 Armando Andre food administrator of Cuba. 



Under the provisions of the food control 

 bill, recently passed by Congress and sanc- 

 tioned by the President, the appointee to the 

 position of food administrator will also occupy 

 the place as chairman of the sugar exporta- 

 tion committee. 



CUBAN AVIATION CORPS 



A circular letter has been addressed by 

 army headquarters to miHtary commanders 

 throughout the Island of Cuba, instructing 

 them to ascertain who among their respective 

 troops desire to join the aviation corps about 

 to be formed in Cuba for service in Europe. 

 Applications for admission to the corps may 

 be made by captains, lieutenants, non-com- 

 sioned officers and privates. A pamphlet 

 has been prepared for dLstribution through- 

 out the army, detailing the plans for the avia- 

 tion school to be established. 



RED CROSS HOSPITALS IN EUROPE 



The Cuban Congress has passed a bill 

 authorizing the expenditure of $3,000,000 a\ 

 the establishment of Red Cross hospitals on 

 the battlefields of Europe and the relief of 

 war sufferers there. 



HAVANA PORT CAPTAIN 



Sr. Alberto de Carricarte, Captain in the 

 Navy, has been appointed Captain of the 

 port of Havana. The post had been left 

 vacant by the resignation of Sr. Ignacio Mon- 

 talvo. 



