THE CUBA R E V I L W 



11 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE 



Ilavuna, June llth, 1917. 



The Cuban Government, some time Hince, 

 officially announced that the Revolution which 

 broke out last February was ended, altliouKh 

 there are still a few small bands operating in 

 the eastern provinces. The latest devt'lop- 

 ment in this coimection is the annouiic<'nient 

 that the militia will be mustered out on .June 

 15th, as their services are now no loiij^cr re- 

 quired. 



It is announced that the trial by military 

 court martial of the Cuban army offic(>rs who 

 participated in the recent revolution will be- 

 gin .June loth, and there are over thirty ( 'uban 

 officers to be tried. 



On account of the revolutionists burning 

 so many railroad bridges and destroying rail- 

 road tracks, communication between Havana 

 and Santiago has been either by direct steamer 

 or by rail to Cienfuegos, thence by steamer. 

 The railroad companies have worked as ra[)id- 

 ly as po.ssible repairing damages and com- 

 munication between Havana, and Santiago is 

 again open by making two short transfc^rs. 



President Menocal has sent a letter to (.'on- 

 gress asking to be authorized to establish a 

 sslective draft system in Cuba similar to that 

 efTective in the United States, the ages to be 

 within 21 and 30. He calls attention to the 

 fact that voluntary enlistment is very de- 

 ficient, and in view of Cuba having entf^red 

 the great war, it becomes necessary that she 

 prepare herself to this end. 



The high cost of living continues to receive 

 the attention of the Government in an en- 

 deavor to reduce same. The bakers insisted 

 that they could not bake bread and sell it at 

 the rate of r2c. per lb., as decreed by the 

 Government, then!ff)r(; with an idea to h(!lp- 

 ing them out the f Jovernmrmt has purchased 

 a large quantity of flour in the L'nited States, 

 some of which has already arrived and, it is 

 stated, will be sold to the bakers at cost. 



The suburban development of Havana con- 

 tinues without any apparent let-up, notwith- 

 standing the greatly increased cost of buiirling, 

 due not only to the high cost of material, both 

 local and imported, but al.so in view of the 

 eight-hfjur law and larger wages which have to 

 be paid the workmen. 



With a view to developiri'.^ l,iiitj lying bi-- 

 tween the .\lrn-;ndares River ami the bathing 



beach at Marianao, a company has been 

 formed of which the Havana millionaire mer- 

 chant, Jose Lopez Rodriguez, is the principal 

 factor, which has secured a concession from 

 the (Jovertunent to build a dravsbridgc across 

 the vlmendares River, thus continuing to 

 flic bathing beach the sea drive which, leading 

 out of Havana, now ends at the liiver. 



Some time ago a concession was granted by 

 the ('uban CJovernment to lay a telephone 

 cable between Havana and Key ^\'est, the idea 

 of the promoters being that by iiu-ans of same 

 the Cuban Telephone Co., which is the only 

 telephone company operating in Cuba, would 

 be connected with the liell Telephont! Co. and 

 thereby make it possible to commtmicate di- 

 rectly between the principal cities of Cuba and 

 the United States. 



Nothing definit(! has yet becsn done in this 

 direction, but t\w (!uban Telephone Co., in 

 their annual rejxjrt recently published, state 

 it is their intention to arrange for this conncic- 

 tion, and they also expect to make arrange- 

 ments so that similar cables will be laid be- 

 tween the eastern end of Cuba and Haiti, and 

 al.so from Santo Domingo to Puerto Rico, thus 

 enabling t(;lephoiic conununication to be had 

 with these; two islands. 



CIENFUEGOS 



The U. S. State ])ey)artm(!nt announces th*; 

 appointiuent of (Charles S. Wiujins, formerly 

 consul at Nunimberg, to be consul at Cien- 

 fiiegos, ('uba. 



SAN n AGO AND HAVANA 



Under date of ,]mw 2nd, it i.s anTiouncc<l 

 that rail comvnuni(!ation lias been ag;iin 

 establi-shed between Havana and Santiago 

 for passenger service only. This nccessitateH 

 the passengers making two transfers and it 

 is not jet possible to handle freiglit. Th(! 

 work of re{)airirig tlu; bridges is being rajjidly 

 done, and it is hopr-d that the line will .soon 

 be in a position to luuidle fr.-ight. 



FOURTH OF JULY 



The .Americ.m residents in Havana have 

 j)l,inried to have a patriotic celebration on tlu; 

 1th of July, to b(! held at the National 

 TlK^atcr. An elaborat(! program has been 

 pi mn'd and t!ie entire jiroccM^fls of tlu; enter- 

 tiimiiciit, arc to be devoted to I Ik; Red ('ross. 



