THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1920, by the Munson Steamship Line 



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Volume XVIII 



NOVEMBER, 1920 



Number 12 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



THE CUBAN ELECTIONS 



The Presidential election in Cuba was 

 held on November 1st and was the first 

 under the law framed by Major General 

 Enoch Crowder. 



The leader of the 1912 revolution, Gen- 

 eral Jose Miguel Gomez, a former Presi- 

 dent, was the Liberal nominee. On the 

 ticket with him was Sr. Miguel Arango, a 

 former Conservative. In place of the once 

 strong Conservative Party, there is the 

 Coalition or National League, comprising 

 members of the Conservative and Popular 

 wings. The Coalition nominee was Dr. 

 Alfredo Zayas, candidate for Vice-Presi- 

 dent under Gomez in 1912 and supported 

 by Gomez as the Liberal candidate for 

 President four years later. Zayas, known 

 as the real founder of the Liberals, took 

 no part in the Gomez revolution. The 

 Vice-Presidential candidate on the Coali- 

 tion ticket was Sr. Francisco Carillo, a 

 former Conservative. 



According to cabled advices from 

 Havana, Dr. Alfredo Zayas, the Coalition 

 candidate, has been elected President. The 

 Liberals have been conceded Havana Prov- 

 ince, the Coalition candidate carrying the 

 other five provinces. 



The Liberals have protested the election 

 and General Gomez has appointed a com- 

 mittee to go to Washington to petition 

 the American Government to annul the 

 elections, on the ground of alleged vio- 

 lence and coercion on the part of his op- 

 ponents. General opinion seems to con- 

 cede the victory to Dr. Zayas. 



NEW CONSUL GENERAL FOR HAVANA 

 Mr. H. W. Harris, who has been Consul 

 General from the United States to Havana 

 since March 1, 1918, has resigned his post 

 and will leave the consular service to 

 resume practice of law in Alliance, Ohio. 

 Mr. Harris has been in the United States 

 Consular Service for twenty-one years. 



Mr. Carl Bailey Hurst has been ap- 

 pointed by the United States Department 

 of State to succeed retiring Consul Harris. 

 Mr. Hurst has been Consul General in 

 Barcelona, Spain, since November, 1913. 

 Mr. Hurst was born in Bremen, Ger- 

 many, of American parents, August 16,- 

 1867. He attended Phillips Exeter 

 Academy, Harvard College, and was 

 graduated from the University of Tur- 

 ingen, Germany, in 1891, with the degree 

 of M.A. and Ph.D- He has been in the 

 consular service since 1892 and was made 

 Consul General of Class 4, by act ap- 

 proved February 5th, 1915. 



NEW CHINESE MINISTER 

 Mr. S. Quang is the newly appointed 

 Chinese Minister to Cuba. He will be 

 the first minister and extraordinary en- 

 voy appointed by the Chinese Government 

 to reside in Cuba, as affairs of the Chinese 

 Legation in Cuba had in the past been 

 handled by its Minister at Washington. 

 Mr. Quang formerly held the position of 

 Director of Politics in the Chinese State 

 Department. 



