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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Several important changes 



U. S. Repre- in the United States diplo- 

 sentatives matic service on September 



Transferred 19th included the transfer 

 of Hugh S. Gibson, secre- 

 tary of the legation at Havana, who was 

 recently assaulted by Enrique Maza, a Cu- 

 ban newspaper reporter, to the secretary- 

 ship of the legation at Brussels. J. Butler 

 Wright of Wyoming, who has been on 

 special duty in the department, is named 

 to succeed Mr. Gibson. 



Mr. Wright, who is a graduate of 

 Princeton, was formerly engaged in the 

 banking business, and was also interested 

 in stock raising in Wyoming until 1909, 

 when he was appointed secretary of lega- 

 tion at Tegucigalpa. This year he was 

 appointed secretary of the legation and 

 consul general to Roumania, Servia and 

 Bulgaria, but did not go to his post. 



State Department officials regard Mr. 

 Gibson's transfer as a distinct promotion. 

 It is admitted that the change will relieve 

 Mr. Gibson of any embarrassment in con- 

 tinuing at a post where his experiences 

 have been so unpleasant. There is no 

 doubt that the change, in the very nature 

 of things, will also tend to relieve the 

 strained relations, the result of Mr. Gib- 

 son's conduct of the Reilly claim, which 

 was strictly in accordance with his instruc- 

 tions from his government, and the sub- 

 sequent attack. His transfer, however, 

 did not affect this government's demand 

 upon Cuba that his assailant be punished 

 according to the Cuban law. 



Mr. Gibson will not leave Havana before 

 November 1st next. 



Edward Bell, of New York, formerly 

 second secretary of the legation at Havana, 

 was transferred to Panama. He received 

 his notice September 24th. 



The comment of some of the Havana 

 papers on these transfers was that Wash- 

 ington was showing its displeasure of the 

 actions of the American secretary in 

 furthering American interests. 



Cubans are gloatingly saying that they 

 have intimidated Washington, while the 

 Americans here feel that their interests 

 have been greatly injured, as the Cuban 

 government is encouraged by Mr. Gibson's 

 transfer to resist American claims hence- 

 forth, no matter bow just they are, while 

 future American diplomats in Havana will 

 be fearful to incur Washington's displea- 

 sure by protecting American interests. 



Rear Admiral Lucien Loung, U. S. N., 

 who during his career in the navy was 

 twice mentioned in dispatches for "ex- 

 traordinary heroism," died October 3d. 



He was captain of the port of Havana 

 in 1899 and 1900, and was commandant 

 of the United States naval station at the 

 same port in the following years. 



General Mario G. Menocal 



Candidato del Partido Conservador a la Presi- 



dencia de la Republica. — La Bohemia, Habana. 



Port 

 Company 

 Privileges 



The Port Company of Cuba 

 under its concession granted 

 by the act of February 11, 

 1911, has the following 

 privileges : The dredging of 

 all the ports in the republic; the reclaim- 

 ing and improvement of all the low 

 marshes in the littoral of the harbor of 

 Havana ; the canalization of the rivers and 

 streams which flow into the harbor ; the 

 wreckage and salvage of all the ships as 

 may be found sunk in Havana harbor ; it 

 is entitled to receive weekly from the 

 treasury of the republic the full amount 

 collected by the government for "the im- 

 provement of the ports"; to be adjudicated 

 the property, lands as may be declared un- 

 healthy and that of private property own- 

 ers who should fail to proceed and reclaim 

 such lands within the time fixed by the 

 port board (this period being different 

 than that fixed by the port law in force) ; 

 to investigate the ownership of all such 

 lands in and about the littoral and con- 

 cessions which have heretofore been 

 granted, and other nice things which would 

 take a long time to enumerate. 



American and Cuban lawyers have been 

 studying every aspect of this concession 

 and will endeavor to bring the whole mat- 

 ter into the courts and secure the cancella- 

 tion of the concession. 



Rev. George M. Brown of the mission 

 of the Church of the Seventh Day Ad- 

 ventists in Cuba has been authorized to 

 solemn marriages. 



