THE CUBA R E V I E W 



Senor Guillermo Patterson y Jaureguiy, recently 

 appointed sub-secretary of state. He is a talented 

 lawyer with considerable diplomatic 

 having served Cuba at Madrid, 

 and Liverpool 



experience. 

 Philadelphia 



Colonel W. C. Gor^as, who 



Fraiscs was director of sanitation in 



Cuban Cuba ditring the first inter- 



Sanitatioii vention, and who attended 



the health congress held in 



Havana a few weeks ago, was asked for 



an opinion regarding the present sanitary 



condition of the island, and replied : 



"I am very inuch pleased with the sani- 

 tary condition of Havana and of Cuba. I 

 think that the Cubans have done wonder- 

 fully well in the way they have conducted 

 their sanitary affairs. They have taken 

 up the work where we left off and have 

 gone on with it. I have much praise and 

 no adverse comment to make concerning 

 their work. 



"Cuba has a great advantage in its na- 

 tional sanitary law. It is something that 

 we do not enjoy in the United States. What 

 few laws we have on sanitary matters are 

 mere makeshifts which are passed by each 

 state or municipality." 



WANT DUTIES REDUCED 



.\ petition, made by pineapple exporters 

 asking that paper used for wrapping pine- 

 apples be placed under another classification 

 of the tariff law and therefore pay a 

 smaller duty, is pending action l)y the 

 Treasury Department. 



Paynunt of $210,000 for a 

 -\( Ti' Lands first mortgage on the 900 

 (// caballerias of land adjoin- 



CJuanhniaino ing the United States naval 

 station at Guantanamo, and 

 for which the United States has been ne- 

 gotiating with Cuba for several months, 

 was paid to Colonel Jane Nicolas Jane, the 

 owner, on Decemlier 5th, and a valuation 

 of $1,999,998 for the property was accepted 

 by General Montalvo. 



As the Cuban government must purchase 

 or expropriate the property, if it is deliv- 

 ered to the United States government, the 

 figures certified to in the notarial document 

 when the mortgage was executed is taken 

 as an indication of the price that will be 

 asked. 



In the draft of the treaty with the United 

 States for the acquisition of additional 

 lands adjoining the Guantanamo naval sta- 

 tion, it is proposed to cede in return the 

 rights for a coaling station at Bahia Honda. 

 These rights were obtained at the same 

 time as those of Guantanamo, but the sta- 

 tion has never been developed. 



The |)rincipal reason for the desire of 

 the United States to increase its Guan- 

 tanamo holdings is that the present site has 

 no water supply. The property of Colonel 

 Jane is crossed by the Yateras River, which 

 furnishes excellent drinking water. 



Commander George W. Kline has been 

 appointed commander of the United States 

 naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. 



It is believed that Cuba will 

 [ndeninity have to pay to citizens of 

 Demanded England, Germany and 



France the $6,500,000 in- 

 demnity claimed by them. Secretary 

 Sanguily of the Department of State said 

 on December Sth that he did not see any 

 way for Cuba to avoid the payment. 



The secretary also said that the claims 

 would be taken up after M. Jules de Clerq. 

 the new French minister, presents his cre- 

 dentials. The claimants will then be heard. 

 The three governments claim indemnity 

 for damages which their citizens declare 

 they suffered during the Cuban revolution. 

 The claims have never been pressed, al- 

 though they have been called to the atten- 

 tion of the Cuban government from time 

 to time. About three months ago a joint 

 note from the three powers was handed 

 Secretary Sanguily with the request that 

 Cuba state what she intended to do about 

 the alleged indebtedness. 



NEW MINISTER ARRIVES 



Arthur M. Beaupre, the newly appointed 

 American minister to Cuba, arrived at 

 Havana December 6th. Mr. Beaupre was 

 appointed minister to Cuba two months ago 

 to succeed J. B. Jackson, who has been 

 transferred to Budapest. 



