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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1918, by the Mutuon Steamthiv Lin* 



Volume XVI 



SEPTEMBER, 1918 



Number 10 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



ITALIAN WAR CROSS FOR PRESIDENT 



The Italian Alinister has notified President 

 Menocal that the ItaUan Government has 

 decorated hina with the War Cross of San 

 Mauricio and San Lorenzo. 



FRENCH MINISTER 



E. A. Ronssin, the new French minister to 

 Cuba, in succession to Count DeClercq, who 

 resigned recently, owing to ill health, has 

 arrived in Havana. 



Mr. Ronssin was formerly attached to the 

 French diplomatic staffs at Berne and 

 Madrid. 



[ADDITIONAL CONGRESSMEN 



The increase in population of the Provinces 

 of Matanzas, Santa Clara, Camaguey, Pinar 

 del Rio and Oriente entitles these provinces 

 to additional congressmen in the house of 

 representatives as follows: Matanzas and 

 Camaguey, 1 each; Pinar del Rio, 2; and 

 Santa Clara and Oriente, 3 each. 



CUBAN_LEGAT10NS , 

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Congress has enacted a law authorizing 

 the President of Cuba to establish a legation 

 in Nicaragua, the personnel of which is to 

 consist of a minister, first and second secre- 

 taries, a vice-consul, and a chancellor. The 

 minister to Nicaragua may also be accredited 

 to: the Governments of Salvador, Honduias 

 and Costa Rica. The law also authorizes the 

 establishment of a legation in Japan, with a 

 personnel composed of a minister and first 

 and second secretaries, and the raising of 

 Cuba's representation in China to the rank of 

 a legation, with a personnel consisting of a 

 minister and a secretary of the second class. 



ARMY APPROPRIATIONS 



Three appropriation decrees were signed 

 Aug. 30 by President Menocal. 



The first, for .$300,000, to be taken from any 

 available funds in the treasury, is for the pur- 

 pose of covering the expenses of enlistment 

 and mobilization. 



The second decree authorizes the expendi- 

 ture of $649,228.84 for the purchase and 

 lease of land. 



The third, also an army measure, autho- 

 rizes the transfer of funds to the amount of 

 S10,000 from the appropriation for subsis- 

 tence and transportation to the account of 

 sundry expenses. 



DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS. 



President Menocal signed a decree Aug. 23, 

 naming Guillermo de Blanck as minister to 

 Japan, with residence at Tokio and Jose A. 

 Barnet for the corresponding post at the capi- 

 tal of the Chinese Republic. 



In another decree he ordered the following 

 transfers in the diplomatic corps: Dr. Miguel 

 A. Camps, secretary of the first class at Lon- 

 don, to the legation at Berne, Switzerland; 

 Dr. Alfredo Forcade, secretary of the first 

 class at Christiania, Norway, to London, Dr. 

 Anaonio Mesa y Piasencia, secretary of the 

 second class at Bogota, to the legation at 

 Santiago de Chile. 



DRIVE FOR SUBMARINES 

 In response to the call of Vicej-President 

 Nunez, chairman of the Committee for the 

 Acquisition of Submarines, a drive started 

 Sept. 1, throughout the Republic of Cuba, for 

 funds with which to acquire six submarines 

 for the Cuban Government, one to be do- 

 nated by the people of each province. 



