THE 

 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL AP.OUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1017, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume XV 



JULY, 1917 



Number 8. 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



CUBA'S PARTICIPATION IN THE GREAT WAR 



The "ever faithful isle" is an old Spanish 

 name for Cuba which is being enthusiastically 

 revived. By ranging herself side by side with 

 the United States in the great struggle for 

 world wide democracy, Cuba has demonstrated 

 her unswerving devotion to the country which 

 gave her freedom. 



Though the Island republic has a standing 

 army of only 11,000 men, her unorganized mili- 

 tary strength is estimated at 450,000. Her 

 greatest service in the war will be to see that 

 the numerous bays and gulfs which indent her 

 2,500 miles of coastline are not used as hidden 

 bases by Germany. 



Both copper and manganese, extremely 

 valuable in the manufacture of munitions, are 

 mined in considerable cfuantities in the eastern 

 provinces, particularly in the neighborhood 

 of Santiago. Four thousand iron miners fur- 

 nish the United States with an a\'.=rage of 

 50,000 tons of ore each month. With Cuba 

 an ally instead of a neutral, United States ves- 

 sels will have the use of the Havana and other 

 harbors, when necessary. By the treaty of 

 1903, we acquired coaling stations at Guanta- 

 namo and Bahia Honda. 



INTERNATIONAL FARM CONGRESS 



The Cuban government has been invited 

 by the government of the United States to 

 participate in the International Farm Con- 

 gress, which will be held at Peoria, 111., in 1918. 



IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS 



As a result of a message sent to Congress by 

 President Menocal, calling attention to the 

 fact that the country lacks the nece.ssary 

 number of farm laborers because the usual 

 immigration of Spanish laborers is greatly 

 diminished at present by opportunities 

 opened to them in the United States and other 

 countries, where wages are high and work is 

 plentiful, a bill has been .submitted to the 

 Cuban Congress recommending that all re- 

 strictions on immigration should be with- 

 drawn, excepting those enforced by the D<>- 

 partment of Sanitation, and that prohibiting 

 minors under fourteen years of age entering 

 the country without being accompanied by, 

 or having in Cuba, some relatives. 



SAGUA RAILROAD CONCESSIONS 



President .Menocal, at the suggestion of the 

 Secretary of Public Works, has signed a de- 

 cree approving the sale of the Sagua Railroad 

 concession, which was granted on December 

 19, 1856, for the use of the port of Isabela de 

 Sagua, to the Cuban Central Railroad, Ltd. 

 The concession also included the land on 

 which the Sagua Railroad's station, ware- 

 house and shops are located. The Sagua Rail- 

 road Company has been granted a new con- 

 cession to build three warehouses at the 

 Sagua docks, according to plans submitted on 

 September 15, 1915. 



