THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Captain Geo. Reno of the Cuban Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has arrived in the United 

 States in order to have a conference with 

 Mr. Herbert C. Hoover in regard to the food 

 situation in Cuba. 



There are many problems which confront 

 Cuba imder present conditions. 



Captain Reno fully realizes the importance 

 of Cuba's producing other crops besides 

 sugar and tobacco in order that, by means 

 of the diversity of crops and more attention 

 to cattle raising, the Cuban people will not be 

 compelled to im]Dort such large quantities of 

 foodstuffs as is done imder present conditions. 



CUBAN ARMY 



Colonel .Miguel Varona has been appointed 

 Chief of the General Staff of the Cuban Army. 



It has been determined by Presidential 

 decree that the pay of the members of the 

 regular army and militia, during the period 

 of insurrection in Cuba is to be doubhd. This 

 increase will cover the period from February 

 10th to June 20th. 



COLONEL COLLAZO 



Colonel Rosendo Collazo of the Cuban 

 Army, who has been in conference at Wash- 

 ington with officers of the United States 

 Army General Staff, has left for a tour of the 

 country, to inspect the various national army 

 ctntonments, and to report, on his return 

 to Havana, on the workings of the selective 

 draft in the United States, to President Men- 

 ocal of Cuba. 



Colonel Collazo effected the captiu-e last 

 March, during the Cuban uprising, of former 

 President Jose Miguel Gomez with his staff, 

 thus putting a stop to the activities of the 

 rebels on the island. He is known in Cuba 

 as a tactical expert and a student of military 

 affairs. 



In his tour of the United States, Colonel 

 Collazo expects to visit the Plattsburg camp, 

 two large national training grounds in the 

 State of New York, one in Indiana, and one 

 in South Carolina, and to visit as well various 

 arsenals and depots where army equipment 

 is produced and stored, so that when the time 

 arrives in Cuba, everything will be in readi- 

 ness for procedure along the most efficient 

 and vigorous lines. 



GERMAN SHIPS 



The Cuban government has turned over 

 to the United States the five German mer- 

 chant ships siezed in Cuban ports when Cuba 

 declared war on Germany. The ships will 

 be made ready for repair and operation. 



REGULATIONS FOR PHYSICIANS 



The Secretary of Sanitation approved the 

 resolution adopted by the National Council 

 of Sanitation to the effect that all doctors 

 who are engaged, or will hereafter engage, 

 in professional practice in Cuba, under dip- 

 lomas obtained in other countries, must 

 present themselves to the authorities of the 

 National University for such examination 

 as these may deem desirable, to have their 

 titles considered valid. 



NATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS 



President Menocal has approved the bill 

 granting an appropriation of $6,000 to assist 

 in meeting the expenses of the forthcoming 

 Fourth National Cuban Medical Congress. 



SCHOOLS 



President Menocal has signed the bill 

 recently voted by Congress providing for the 

 estabUshment of 900 new schools in the 

 RepubUc, to be distributed throughout the 

 six provinces. 



CONSULS AND DIPLOMATS 



All members of the Cuban diplomatic and 

 consular service abroad are to receive salary 

 increases of 30 per cent, by a statute passed 

 by Congress and which General .Menocal 

 approved. 



TEACHERS PENSIONS 



At the meeting of the Teachers' Association 

 of Havana, the question of obtaining a law 

 whereby teachers woidd be pensioned at the 

 end of their service was again discussed, and 

 it was thought that the matter would again 

 be presented to the Cuban Congress. 



