THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1914, by tht Munson Steamship Line 



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Volume XIII 



FEBRUARY, 1915 



Number 3 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



DIPLOMATS NAMED FOR THREE FOREIGN 

 LEGATIONS 



Announcement is made of various new dip- 

 lomatic appointments. As minister to Ger- 

 many to fill the place of the late Sr. Quesada, 

 president has nominated Sr. Aristides Aguero, 

 at present minister to Norway. To fill the 

 vacancy thus created, Sr. Manuel de la Vega, 

 at present secretary to the legation at Wash- 

 ington, will be appointed, and for the vacant 

 place as minister to Brazil, Sr. Ignacio 

 Morales is named. 



CUBA'S EXHIBIT AT THE PANAMA 

 EXPOSITION 



The Department of Health of Cuba will 

 have a special exhibit at the San Francisco 

 Exposition. The articles to be exhibited 

 filled seventy cases, and were shipped from 

 Havana via New Orleans the latter part of 

 January. General Loinaz del Castillo will 

 be in charge of this part of the exhibition. 

 General del Castillo will start for San Fran- 

 cisco, and will probably be accompanied by 

 Dr. Pons and Dr. Tajdor, who will have 

 charge of the installment of the articles at the 

 exhibition. Senor Servando Molina, the 

 artist who made the relief maps, which are an 

 interesting part of the exhibition, will also 

 accompany the party. 



EXPERTS SUPERVISE CUBA'S NATIONAL 

 COINAGE 



Enrique ]Monaelieu, who has been commis- 

 sioned by the government to supervise the 

 coining of Cuba's national currency at Phila- 

 delphia, has left for the United States, accom- 

 panied by the financial exjaert, M. Conant. 



Each of the dies from which the coinage will 

 be moulded is to cost 



FOUR SPANIARDS DEPORTED 



On January 15, President Menocal signed 

 a decree expelling from Cuba as undesirable 

 foreigners, four Spaniards, who, it has been 

 alleged, have been spreading anarchistic doc- 

 trines among the working men of Cuba. In 

 spite of the fact that these individuals claimed 

 that they were hard-working men, they were 

 returned to Spain on the S.S. " Valdanera." 



FORESTRY LAWS ENFORCED 



A difficult situation has been created in 

 Camaguey by the strict enforcement of the 

 law on the ex]:)loitation of forest lands. The 

 country people have been accustomed to cut 

 wood whenever they saw a tree that looked 

 suitable for their purpose, with the result that 

 there are now 200 wagons, all loaded with 

 wood, which have been confiscated and are 

 waiting action by the courts. The Chamber of 

 Commerce is taking the matter up as it is cer- 

 tain that if the people are deprived of their 

 carts for any length of time that there would 

 be serious trouble. 



CUBA PROHIBITS INTRODUCTION OF HABIT- 

 FORMING DRUGS 



A decree has been presented to Presi- 

 dent IVIenocal for his signature prohibiting 

 the custom house and postal authorities from 

 admitting packets containing habit-forming 

 drugs, unless the person to whom such drugs 

 were consigned was a duly licensed pharma- 

 cist or a physician. 



This is considered an important step in the 

 great campaign which is being waged against 

 the sale of these dangerous drugs to unauthor- 

 ized persons. 



