THE CUBA R E V 1 E W 



HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE 



An-iist 2:!nl, I'.i^D. 



NEW CABLE LINES: rennission hiis Ihhmi <rr!intcil t>y the Culinii (iovcrmiifiit to 

 a cotupany wliidi is n-lt'iml to as the "All America Ci'.hles. Inc.," to establish cahle- 

 praphic (•..nnmiiiication between Havana anil the United States. This cable will be 

 moored at some place betwtM:Mi Havana and Cojimar, and at New York or some other 

 point on tlie T'niled States coast. Work is to commence within five years from the 

 date on which this cable company olitains permission from the United States Govern- 

 ment to lay tlie cable and is to be completed within thn-e years of the time the wurk 

 is befrnn. This company has also been given permission by the Cuban Government to 

 lay a cable from Havana to Santiago de Cuba and Guantananio as well as other pnrts 

 on the north <-oast of Cuba, such as Matanzas, Cardenas. Sagua, Xuevitas, Antilla. Nipe. 

 etc. Permission has further been given them to lay a cable from Havana to Mexico or 

 .some other Central American country on the coast of the Caril)hean Gulf, from whence 

 connnunication is to be establishtnl with Panama and South America. 



EXPERIMENTS TO BE MADE WITH NEW CURE FOR LEPROSY: A law was re- 

 cently passed whereby Dr. Modesto Gomez Rubio was authorized to put into practice 

 during a period of three years a plan which he has evolvetl for the treatment and ciu-e 

 of leprosy, ami an annual credit of .$Gl,2tH has been voted for this purpose. Experi- 

 ments will be made with sixty lepers, who will be selected from among the inhabitants 

 of the r.eper Hospital of Cuba by a special commission which will be named for this 

 puriiose. This commission will examine each case before it is submitted to Dr. Gomez 

 Ituliio for treatment, and a report showing the progress made by each patient will be 

 rendered every six months, and at the end of three years the I'esults obtained will be 

 made known. 



POLITICAL NEWS: In an endeavor to present as strong a front as possible to 

 the Liberal party candidate, General Jos6 Miguel Gomez, the Conservative party has 

 been makim: a strenuous effort to fuse the followers of General Nunez (the present 

 Yice-President of the Republic and also candidate for the Presidency) with those of 

 tlie newly formed Republican party. General Montalvo, Presidential candidate of the 

 Conservative party, was recently asked to renounce his candidacy in favor of a ticket 

 hcailed by Dr. Enriiiue J. Yarona, Yice-President of the Republic during President 

 Mcnocal's first term of office, and Dr. Alfredo Zayas has agreed to accept the candidacy 

 of \'ic*^President. Rumor has it that President Menocal has split with General Mon- 

 talvo because of the latter's refusal to renounce Presidential candidacy. 



From all indications, the Liberals will again have a splendid majority in both the 

 House of Representatives and the Senate after the coming elections. If a Conservative 

 President were elected in November, his position would be analogous to that of Presi- 

 di'iit ^Yilson in the United States with a Republican majority in both the House of 

 Representatives and the Senate. 



American newspaper men in Havana recently published what appeared to be 

 authoritative information as to the position to be taken by the American Governmeiit 

 during the coming elections, stating that the American Government would observe a 

 strictly "hands off" policy and confirming its confidence in President Menocal to conduct 

 a fair election. This news was received with apprehension among the Liberal forces 

 and it is said that a petition is to be addressed to President Wilson asking that General 

 Crowder be permitte<l to come to Cuba during the elections for the purpose of assuring 

 all parties absolute fair play. 



General Jose Miguel Gomez, Liberal candidate for the Presidency, recently re- 



