THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



ENLISTMENTS IN CUBAN ARMY 

 The Chief of Staff of the Cuban army 

 has announced that 4,333 enlistments and 

 re-enlistments in the army have been re- 

 corded between March 30 and September 

 20. 



Of this number, 2,347 were enlistments 

 and 1,959 were re-enlistments. A campaign 

 to stimulate enlistments in the army was 

 started the latter part of October and it 

 is expected that the total enlistments will 

 reach a satisfactory figure. 



COMMERCIAL ENVOY TO EUROPE 

 President Menocal has appointed Sr. 

 Miguel Gonzalez de Mendoza to the post 

 of commercial envoy to go to France, Eng- 

 land, Belgium and other countries to study 

 the present state of commerce and indus- 

 try in relation to the products of Cuba. 

 The purpose is to secure new markets for 

 Cuban goods and it is hoped that mutual 

 commercial benefit will result. 



STUDENT FROM SERBIA 

 Lieutenant Dragogliut Stajanose, of the 

 Serbian army, is now in Cuba for the pur- 

 pose of studying the agricultural methods 

 In the Island. 



CUSTOM HOUSE RECEIPTS 



Collections at the Havana Custom 

 House for the month of October amounted 

 to $3,511,442.91. This is the largest amount 

 collected in a single month in the history 

 of Havana. 



THREE MILLIONS IN SMALL CHANGE 

 FOR CUBA 

 The Secretary of the Treasury has been 

 informed that the work of coining the 

 $3,000,000, which the Cuban government 

 proposes to have coined in small coins at 

 the United States mint in Philadelphia, 

 can be started early in the coming year. 



APPROPRIATION FOR ELECTORAL 



BOARDS 

 President Menocal recently signed a bill 

 carrying an appropriation of $200,000 to 

 defray the expenses of the electoral boards 

 of the country. 



DELEGATES TO INTERNATIONAL LABOR 

 CONFERENCE 

 The Cuban delegates appointed to the 

 International Labor Conference in Wash- 

 ington, commencing October 29th, were 

 Dr. Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, dele- 

 gate to the peace conference in Paris ; Dr. 

 Carlos Armenteros and Dr. Francisco Car- 

 rera Jestiz, representatives of the Cuban 

 Government, and Dr. Luis Rosainz, repre- 

 sentative of the employers. 



QUARANTINE AGAINST MARSEILLES, 

 FRANCE 

 Because of the report that cases of bu- 

 bonic plague have been discovered in Mar- 

 seilles, France, the Chief of Quarantine 

 at Havana, Dr. Hugo Roberts, has ad- 

 dressed a circular to the port physicians 

 in Cuba, in which it is directed that all 

 ships arriving from that port be quaran- 

 tined and a rigid examination of the pas- 

 sengers made before any are permitted to 

 land. 



FINANCIAL CONGRESS 

 A commission, with Secretary of the 

 Treasury Cancio as its President, has 

 been named to attend the Financial Con- 

 gress which is to be held in Washington 

 in February. 



One of the most important matters of 

 interest to Cuba to be considered at the 

 congress is the question of a free port in 

 each of the countries in the Americas. 

 In case the free port proposition is ac- 

 cepted, it is proposed that either Cardenas 

 or Cienfuegos in Cuba be named. 



