THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBA'S DELEGATION TO PEACE CONFERENCE 



The above photograph was taken January 25th, 1919, just prior to embarkation 

 of Cuba's delegate from Havana for the United States en route to France. Cuba's 

 delegate to the Peace Conference, Dr. Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante can be seen 

 in the center. On Dr. Bustamante's left is Dr. Pablo Desvernine, Cuban Secretary of 

 State, and on his right is Dr. Gabriel Casuso, Rector of the National University, of 

 which faculty Dr. Bustamante is a member. The group shown at the right hand is 

 composed mainly of university students who went to the wharf to see Dr. Busta- 

 mante off. 



Accompanying Dr. Bustamante to Paris are Guillermo de Blanck, secretary; 

 Pedro Fraga and Louis Machaldo as attaches to the commission. The delegates 

 sailed from New York on the United States transport Orizaba and reached Paris on 

 February 8th. Prior to the arrival of Dr. Bustamante, Cuba was represented at the 

 conference by Rafael Martinez y Ortiz, Minister to France. 



President Menocal signed a decree authorizing a credit of forty thousand dollars, 

 of which ten thousand dollars will be assigned to the personal expenses of the journey 

 and the expenses for three months of the delegation from the Republic of Cuba to 

 the Peace Conference, the other thirty thousand dollars to be used for whatever 

 expenses may be incurred by the delegation while in Paris. 



NIGHT SCHOOLS 



Four night schools for the education of 

 workingmen, the first of this class ever 

 established in Cuba, have been opened by 

 the department of public instruction. 

 More than thirty men presented them- 



selves for enrollment at each school on 

 the opening date. 



Special attention is to be given to in- 

 structions in drawing, a knowledge of 

 which it is considered will be of great 

 value to workingmen in many branches 

 of the trade and industry. 



