THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1920, by the Munson Steamship Line 



LIBRAI^T 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANlCAt 



OAROeN 



Volume XVIII 



APRIL, 1920 



Number 5 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF PEACE 

 WITH GERMANY 

 On March loth President Menocal is- 

 sued a decree announcing tliat the state 

 of war between tlae Cuban Republic and 

 the German Empire liad ceased and tliat 

 peace existed ))et\veen tlie two countries. 



RESTORATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL 

 GUARANTEES 



On Marcli 24tli President Menocal 

 signed the law passed by Congress pro- 

 viding for the re-establishment of consti- 

 tutional guarantees. 



■ Constitutional guarantees were sus- 

 pended by the Government during the re- 

 cent harbor strike in order to provide 

 against a general strike and to guard 

 against rioting. 



MODIFICATION OF ELECTORAL REFORM 

 LAW 

 A bill has been passed by the Cuban 

 Congress modifying Article 120 of the 

 Crowder electoral reform law, so as to 

 permit coalition of national political par- 

 ties. An official statement concerning the 

 bill says : 

 — "The amendment passed simply modi- 



^ fled Article 120, which was made to pre- 

 *— vent purely local or provincial parties 

 from being organized solely to obstruct 

 '^ the general elections for personal ends. 



and is limited to provide that parties of 

 a national character, that is, party or- 

 ganizations which have fulfilled all the 

 requirements of the law in the entire 

 republic, may vote for the same candi- 

 date for any office not subject to the pro- 

 portional system. In this way coalitions 

 to which citizens and parties everywhere 

 have a right and which are very frequent 

 all over the Avorld are facilitated." 



NEW CHIEF OF POLICE 

 Lt. Col.' Gabrielle de Cardenas took the 

 oath of office as Chief of the National 

 Police of Cuba on March 19th at the Police 

 Headquarters, in the pi'esence of the 

 police staff and other distinguished per- 

 sons. Brigadier Julio Sanguily, the re- 

 tiring Chief of Police, has been put in 

 command of the Cuban army. 



NEW MEXICAN MINISTER 

 The Cuban State Department has been 

 notified by the Mexican government that 

 Senor Alberto Franco has been appointed 

 to succeed Seiior Jara as Mexican min- 

 ister to Cuba. 



CONSULAR APPOINTMENT AT WASH- 

 INGTON 

 Senor Cayetano de Quesada has recently 

 been appointed Vice Consul of Cuba in 

 Washington, D. C. 



