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erect a large warehouse in Guantanamo for the storage of commodities and also a 

 building for the housing of the Customs officials. Just what will be done in this 

 matter is not yet known. 



SPANISH BATTLESHIP ALFONSO XIIl LEAVES HAVANA: On August 11th at 4:30 

 P. M. the Spanish battleship, "Alfonso XIII," left Havana for Puerto Rico direct. The 

 stay of over a month in Havana Harbor was attended by a continuous round of recep- 

 tions for the cadets. The "Alfonso XIII" will visit the ports of Norfolk, Va., and New 

 York before returning to Spain. Although it rained heavily on the afternoon of the 

 departure, the crowd that gathered on the Malecon and roofs of ])uildings to bid the 

 battleship farewell was very large. 



HAVANA CUSTOM HOUSE RECEIPTS: Custom House receipts for the City of 

 Havana during the year beginnuig .July 1st, 1919, and ending .June 30th, 1920, reached 

 the enormous total of .$39,790,328.74, and we are giving below statistics by months, 

 showing the number of packages despatched through the Custom House for the year 

 ending June 30th, 1920. Especially interesting is the large number of packag?s 

 despatched under "Quedan," which means that consignees deposited with the Custom 

 House an amount equivalent to 2.5 per cent, more than the invoice value of the goods 

 in order to effect prompt despatch. 



Xo. of Plcgs. Vo. of Pkgs. 



Despatched Through Despatched Duties 



1919 Regular Channel Ijy ''Quedan'' Collected 



Julv 1.110.S20 1,495,845 .$2,800,284.20 



August 1. 108,040 1,645.050 2,717,404.88 



September 1,095,(>49 ],788.:305 2,712,005.14 



October 1,154,489 2,1U7,:320 . 3,511,442.91 



November 1,251,562 2,220,025 3,016,770.17 



December 1.275,085 2,-545,785 ' 3,147,088.51 



1920 



Januarv l.:340.945 2,074,650 2,243,798.02 



Februar\- 1,( 192,701 1,796.590 2,718,218.91 



March 1,2(36,400 3,005.840 4,200.276.?5 



April : 1,360,235 2,411,795 4,137,642.48 



Mav 1,501,980 2,8.38.995 4,267,530 62 



June 1,435,287 2,885,235 4,323,706.55 



15.953.193 2(;,sl5.495 .$39,796,328.74 



SUGAR: The International Bank of Cuba, under the presid^icy of Sr. Pedro 

 Sanchez, has laid before Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor Agramonte a 

 plan for the formation of a Reserve Bank which has been designed to assist sugar 

 mill owners and sugar growers in the coming crop to finance their sugar cane. The 

 plan is very comprehensive and stipulates that all banks in opei'ation on the Island of 

 Cuba participate in its activities. 



To facilitate the transportation of Cuban sugars to Europe, the Culian Navigation 

 Company has made an offer to the Government to operate the four seized German shins 

 that have been laying idle in Havana Harbor for some months. The plan of this com- 

 pany is to guarantee the Government .$3 per gross ton per month for each of the vessels 

 and stipulates that cadets of the Cuban Naval College will I)e carried aboard for train- 

 ing. The award was recently made of the ships on this basis, and a large per cent, of 

 the Cuban s-ug.U's sent abroad to European ports will lie handled liy this company. 



Interesting statistics gathered and laTblislied on the subject of sugar consumption 

 in the United States for the past three years indicate that in 1918 the United States 

 requii'ed 3,039,498 tons; in 1919, 4,360,469 tons, and in 1920 the sugar necessary for 

 the American population was 4,742,853 tons. Culia exported up to the 3rd of June, 

 1920, 2,014,553 tons; Puerto Rico 170,000 tons; Hawaii 262,000 tons; other countries 



