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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1912, by the Munson Steamship Line 



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Volume X 



FEBRUARY, 1912 



Number 3 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



The warning, sent to Presi- 

 The dent Gomez tlirough United 



Warning to States Secretary Knox, that 

 Cuba the United States expects 



Cuba to live np to its treaty 

 obligations and maintain a republican form 

 of government, had a most salutary effect 

 and the utterances of the veterans became 

 immediately less turbulent. 



The text of the note presented follows : 



"The situation in Cuba as now reported 

 causes grave concern to the government of 

 the United States. 



"That the laws intended to safeguard 

 free republican government shall be en- 

 forced and not dehed is obviously essential 

 to the maintenance of the law, order and 

 stability indispensable to the status of the 

 republic of Cuba, in the continued well 

 being of which the United States has al- 

 ways evinced and cannot escape a vital 

 interest. 



"The president of the United States, 

 therefore, looks to the president and gov- 

 ernment of Cuba to prevent a threatened 

 situation which would compel the govern- 

 ment of the United States, much against 

 its desires, to consider what measures it 

 must take in pursuance of the obligations 

 of its relations to Cuba." 



The Cuban newspapers urged all Cubans 

 to forget differences and unite in obeying 

 the laws and preserving order. 



The Stock Exchange was strong on the 

 news of possible intervention, and in the 

 Board of Trade there was great relief at 

 the probable revival of business. 



A series of interesting cartoons from 

 prominent United States and Cuban news- 

 papers shows the trend of thought regard- 

 ing the prospects of another intervention. 



1 William Jennings Bryan has sent two 

 books containing his speeches to President 

 Gomez. Mr. Bryan visited the president 



3C during his recent visit to Havana, promis- 



2 in? him the books at that time. 



Germany, France and Eng- 

 Clainis land, through their respect- 

 of Three ive representation, have 

 N'atioiis made claims on Cuba, de- 

 manding the payment of a 

 sum over $6,000,000 to indemnify subjects 

 of those countries for damages suffered 

 during the war of independence. These 

 claims, it is stated, were made separately 

 about nine years ago and that payment has 

 always been deferred until the nations in- 

 terested began a common action and three 

 months ago presented a joint note demand- 

 ing immediate attention to the matter. 



The American government suggested 

 arbitration, to which the Cuban government 

 agreed, naming President Taft as arbi- 

 trator. This was not approved of by the' 

 nations interested, who in th'ir turn sug- 

 gested The Hague Tribunal, and there the 

 matter stands. 



Sr. Bustamente, chairman of the Senate 

 Committee on Foreign Relations, an emi- 

 nent authority on international law, and at 

 one time legal adviser of the United States 

 Consulate in Havana, says that the de- 

 mands made on Cuba by Great Britain, 

 France and Germany are absurd. 



Two ex-secretaries of foreign affairs, 

 Zaido and Garcia Velez. in communications 

 to the press, claim to have examined the 

 tripartite claims and to have refused to 

 recognize them years ago and to have ad- 

 vised the legations pressing the claims that 

 they were unjust and would never be paid 

 by Cuba. 



Secretary Sanguilly, acting according to 

 the suggestion of the Washington govern- 

 ment, it is believed, has replied to the three 

 European countries, which are pressing 

 their claims jointly, that President Gomez 

 will bring the matter of the claims before 

 Congress, which will probably appoint a 

 committee to sift them and authorize the 

 executive to recognize them, refuse them, 

 entertain them, or refer them to The Hague 

 Tribunal. 



Speaker Ferrera of the Lower House 



