THE CUBA R E V I E \Y 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



CREATION OF NEW CONSULATES AND 

 LEGATIONS 



A law of May 6th last enlarges the 

 Cuban consular service and provides for 

 new consulates and vice consulates as fol- 

 lows: General consulates in Stockholm, 

 Copenhagen, Athens and Kobe; second- 

 class consulates in Amsterdam, Halifax. 

 .Milan, Osaka, Nagoya, Detroit, Cincinnati. 

 Cleveland, Norfolk and Pensacola, and 

 vice consulates in Aguadilla, Talma de 

 Mallorca and Pascagoula. The same law 

 creates the post of a consul of the second 

 class attached to the general consulate in 

 Barcelona, Spain, and raises to the rank 

 of consulates general of the first class 

 the consulates in Genoa, Yokohama, San 

 Jose de Costa Rica, Quito and Asuncion ; 

 to consulates of the first class, Belfast, 

 Santa Cruz de Teneriffe, Boston, New Or- 

 leans. San Francisco and San Juan de 

 Puerto Rico, and to consulates of the sec- 

 ond class the vice consulates at Geneva, 

 Bordeaux and Glasgow. The consulate 

 general at Halifax is transferred to Ot- 

 tawa, capital of < 'anada. 



The same law establishes a legation in 

 Portugal in charge of a minister resident 

 and second secretary, closes the general 

 consulate at Lisbon, and establishes a 

 second-class consulate in the Portuguese 

 capital. This law also establishes the post 

 of first secretary in the legations of Brazil 

 and Chile and discontinues the post of 

 secretaries of the second class in said 

 legations, as well as the consulate of the 

 •second class at Petrograd. The two 

 legations maintained in Central America 

 are merged into one, in charge of a min- 

 ister extraordinary and plenipotentiary 

 and a second secretary, the headquarters 

 of the legation to be designated by the 

 President. The vice consulate attached to 

 the legation of Guatemala is made into 

 an independent office, in charge of a vice 

 consul and a chancellor. 



After this law has been in force one 

 year the President will advise Congress 

 which of the nations have no accredited 

 diplomatic representatives to the Repub- 



lic, so that Congress may act as it may 

 deem propei' concerning the matter. 



PACKAGES FOR CUBA 

 The Post Office Department has been 

 advised of the return from Cuba of a 

 la rue number of packages of merchandise 

 mailed in the United States, for the rea- 

 son that said packages were closed against 

 ins] icction. 



As there is no parcel-post convention be- 

 tween the United States and Cuba, the 

 provisions of paragraph InO, on page 154 

 of the Postal Guide for 1918, are not 

 applicable to packages of merchandise 

 mailed in the United States and addressed 

 for delivery in Cuba, such packages being 

 transmissible to Cuba under the provision 

 of the postal convention between the 

 United States and Cuba, which stipulates 

 that articles other than letters in their 

 usual and ordinary form must never be 

 closed against inspection. 



Postmasters have been requested, there- 

 fore, to cause due notice of the foregoing 

 to be taken with the view to prevent the 

 acceptance for mailing to Cuba of articles, 

 other than letters in their usual and 

 ordinary form, when said articles are 

 closed against inspection. 



TEMPORARY DETECTIYE FORCE 

 A presidential decree has been issued 

 authorizing the appointment of a body of 

 detectives, destined to serve in the secret 

 police force for the time decided upon as 

 necessary, and an amount not exceeding 

 $913 per month may be utilized for the 

 purpose, which amount will be charged 

 to general expenses of the Government 

 department. 



PASSPORT REGULATIONS FOR FLIGHT 

 TO CUBA 

 Officers of the army leaving the United 

 States for Cuba or other foreign countries 

 by airplane will he required to have pass- 

 ports under orders issued by the U. S. 

 War Department as the result of a ruling 

 by the State Department. 



