THE 

 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1920, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume XVIII 



SEPTEMBER, 1920 



Number io 



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CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



NEW POST OFFICES 

 New post offices have been established 

 at Teresa, Province of Pinar del Rio, and 

 at Limones, Province of Santa Clara. 



SEAPLANE MAIL SERVICE TO CUBA 



U. S. Postmaster General Burleson 

 signed a contract August 28, providing 

 for a seaplane mail service between the 

 United States and Cuba, the mail to be 

 transported by rail to Key West, thence 

 by seaplane to the Cuban capital. 



Mail for the seaplane route must be 

 marked "via seaplane," and postage on 

 such mail matter will be 6 cents per 

 ounce or fraction of an ounce. 



The company with which the Govern- 

 ment has contracted to operate the sea- 

 plane service is the West Indies Air Ways 

 Company. Major Geoffrey H. Bonnell, 

 who is Vice President of the company, 

 represented that company when the con- 

 tract for one year was entered into. The 

 service will begin October 15 next. 



This is the first' air mail contract made 

 by the United States under the authority 

 of the law providing that the Postmaster 

 General may contract to send foreign mail 

 by seaplane. 



The mail is to be carried in an F-5-L 

 flying boat equipped to carry twelve pas- 

 sengers and also freight, and is propelled 

 by two Liberty motors. 



BAN ON CUBAN RICE IMPORTS 

 President Menocal issued a decree Sep- 

 temlier 7 prohibiting the importation of 

 rice until January 1, 1921, except under 

 Government license. 



This step was taken as a means of ar- 

 riving at a solution of the financial prob- 

 lem which arose between Cuban importers 

 and American exporters of rice, through 

 the failure of the former, after a slump 

 in the market, to fulfill contracts cover- 

 ing between $2.5,000,000 and .$30,000,000 

 worth of that product shipped to Cuba. 



Tender the terms of the decree, all rice 

 now on the docks or in warehouses in 

 Havana must be quickly removed. Space 

 will be reserved in public warehouses for 

 from 1-50,000 to 200,000 sacks, a period of 

 thirty days being allowed for their re- 

 moval. Storage charges will' be doubled 

 for the first ten days over that period, 

 and for each week thereafter an addi- 

 tional 2.5 per cent, will be added. 



DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS 



The collections of the Department of 

 Communications during the month of 

 March amounted to $2.50,126, as compared 

 with $205,106 collected during the same 

 perioid of 1919. 



