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THE CUBA REVIEW 



thorizes the President of the republic to 

 give all such guarantees and conditions as 

 may be legally required. Both the capital 

 and the interest will be exempt from all 

 taxes now in force or that may hereafter 

 be imposed by law in the republic." 



In regard to the time within which the 

 bonds will mature, Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury Leopoldo Caucio made the following 

 statement : 



"I can say that the administration pre- 

 fers a period of 50 years for the total re- 

 payment of the loan, the repayment to be- 

 gin ten years from the date it is made. In 

 this manner by the payment of $250,000 

 annually beginning with 1924, for example, 

 the debt will be paid in 1974, paying in the 

 meantime with rigorous punctuality the 

 interests required by the bonds." 



A new schedule placed in 



Better operation by the Isle of 



Postal Service Pines Steamship Company 



Secured whereby the Port of Jucaro 



was omitted on the run over 

 and mail, passengers and freight carried 

 through to Gerona, created a commotion in 

 the towns interested and a committee 

 promptly called the attention of Postmaster 

 General Hernandez to the matter. 



Col. Hernandez declared it was his de- 

 termination to give all parts of Cuba the 

 best postal service possible, that the new 

 schedule was entirely at variance with their 

 contract with the Isle of Pines Steamship 

 Company, and that he would notify them 

 at once to resume their former schedule. 



The Reporters' Association 

 Asks and the Press Association 



Pardon of Havana recently re- 

 forMaza quested President Menocal 

 to pardon Enrique Maza, a 

 Cuban journalist, who is serving a sentence 

 of two and a half years' imprisonment for 

 assaulting Hugh S. Gibson, at the time 

 charge d'affaires of the American Lega- 

 tion in Havana. The women cigarette 

 makers of Havana have made a similar re- 

 quest. 



Unless President Wilson recommends 

 such action President Menocal is not likely 

 to pardon Maza. 



President Menocal accepted 

 First the resignation of Dr. Cosme 



Cabinet de la Torriente, Secretary 

 Resignation of State, on January 3rd. 

 Dr. Pablo Desvernine, Cu- 

 ban Minister to Washington, and Dr. Ra- 

 fael Montoro, President Menocal's secre- 

 tary, are candidates for the position. 



The bad state of the secretary's health 

 was given as the cause of his resignation. 



The assignment of two Cu- 



Cuban ban naval officers to ships 



Naval Officers of the American navy has 



Assigned been sanctioned by the 



United States officials and 



was the result of a request from the Cuban 



government. 



Captain Juan Rivera and Lt. Jose Van 

 der Gutch will accordingly report to the 

 admiral in charge at Guantanamo. 



Santa Ana Church in Camaguey. 



