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CUBA REVIEW 
“ALL ABOUT CUBA” 
Copyright, 1921, by the Munson Steamship Line 
VotumME XIX OCTOBER, 1921 NuMBER 11 
Cuban Government Matters 
Cuban Domestic Bond Issue 
A bill authorizing a domestic bond 
issue of $45,000,000 to pay government 
obligations outstanding previous to May 
20, 1921, has been approved by the Cuban 
House of Representatives. The measure 
now goes to the Senate. 
The government has decided to sell the 
securities taken in the liquidation of the 
Banco Nacional in order to realize, in part 
at least, on the bank’s guarantees for 
nearly $28,000,000 in government deposits. 
The value of the securities, however, is 
problematical. 
Appropriation for Central Highway 
The Cuban congress has before it a bill 
which proposes to double the appropriation 
of $1,200,000 for the construction of the 
central highway, which is to traverse the 
entire length of the island, from the Cape 
of San Antonio on the west to Cape Maisi 
on the east, passing through Havana, 
Matanzas, Santa Clara, Santiago de Cuba, 
Holguin, and other important centers. 
War Medals 
Two medals for the Cuban Navy are to 
__be struck; one commemorating the cam- 
“paigns since 1902, date of the founding of 
~ the Republic, and the other the part of the 
_-havy in the World War. The second bears 
~,on the obverse a submarine in relief, and 
on the reverse the inscription, “Campaign 
- for Humanity, Justice and Law.” 
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Fifth National Medical Congress 
The Fifth National Medical Congress 
of Cuba, which will be presided over by 
Dr. Presno, Professor of the School of 
Medicine, Havana, will be held December 
11th to 17th. It will be composed of the 
following sections: 
I. General medicine. Il. General 
surgery. Ill. Hygiene, demography, 
and legal medicine. IV. Tropical medi- 
cine; parasitology. V. Ophthalmology 
and otorhinolaryngology. 
Doctors from American countries as well 
as from Spain and France have been in- 
vited to attend the congress. 
Cuban Trade Mission to London 
Negotiations relative to various matters 
at issue between Cuba and Great Britain 
are projected by the Cuban Government, 
which has asked General Mario G. 
Menocal, former President, to head the 
mission of Cuba to London next month. 
Ex-president Menocal is at present visiting 
in Europe. 
Cuban Gift to Verdun 
Sefior Dominguez, former Cuban Min- 
ister to France, has presented to Mayor 
Robin of Verdun a fund of 65,000 francs 
for the creation of an infant school in Ver- 
dun. This money was collected in Cuba 
by the newspapers of Havana. 
Sefior Dominguez was accompanied to 
Verdun by André Maginot, Minister of 
Pensions in the French Cabinet. 
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