THE CUBA REVIEW 



amounts which the company received in ton- 

 nage fees while in operation. The "Dra- 

 gado" i^eople claimed they had spent $5,000,- 

 000 against some $3,000,000 received in taxes. 



The Rural Guard of Cuba, 



The consisting of three regiments, 



Rural Guard have their own telephone 



Telephones lines, devoted entirely to the 

 use of the army and not used 

 for public service. These lines aggregate 

 3,021 K kilometers. 



Regiment No. 1, six squadrons, have 67034 

 kilometers and covers the western end of the 

 island from Guane, north and south coasts, 

 to near Havana. 



Regiment No. 2, ten squadrons, has 1,254 

 kilometers in Matanzas and Santa Clara 

 Province. 



Regiment No. 3, eight squadrons, has 1,097 

 kilometers and covers all the rest of the 

 island. 



Efforts are now being made by the proper 

 officials to permit of a restricted public use of 

 the telephone privileges, although the Cul^an 

 telephone company has practically covered 

 the principal cities of the entire island. The 

 Rural Guard lines are valuable as they con- 

 nect the towns not yet reached by the public 

 service. 



It is said that Major-Gen. 



Cuba and Leonard Wood is seeking 

 Mexico. Cuban surgeons for service 

 in the American Army in the 

 event of an invasion of Mexico, because of 

 their familiarity with diseases in Southern 

 chmates and their knowledge of the Spanish 

 language. 



President Menocal will ask to be allowed 

 to detail several Cuban officers to accompany 

 the United States Army in the event of an 

 invasion. 



On April 23d, President Menocal sent a 

 message to Congress asking that $20,000 be 

 appropriated to bring Cuban citizens out of 

 Mexico, on receipt of a despatch from the 

 Cuban legation in Mexico City, that Cubans 

 were in danger owing to impending riots. 



The Cuban Consul, at Vera Cruz, cabled at 

 the same time urging that a Cuban warship 

 be sent. The Cruiser Cuba was accordingly 

 sent to Vera Cruz. 



N. A. Van Herman has been appointed 

 Chief of the Horticultural Department of the 

 Government Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion at an annual salary of $2,000. 



Mr. Van Hermann was connected with the 

 station during the intervention and is a 

 distinct acquisition to the staff of the station. 



According to official figures, 



Cuba's sup])lied the Cuba Review, 



National by the office of the Secretary 



Debt of the Treasury, the national 



debt of Cuba for the last 



twelve years was as follows : The figures show 



the debt at the beginning of each year: 



1904 $35,000,000 



1905 35,000,000 



1906 35,000,000 



1907 45,785,000 



1908 45,785,000 



1909 51,431,500 



1910 55,861,500 



1911 60,292,000 



1912 59,238,000 



1913 60,007,200 



1914 58,717,300 



Gonzalez Perez made a mo- 



For Better tion, March 20th, to give an 



Schools additional appropriation to 



the Department of Public In- 

 struction for 300 more teachers for the rural 

 districts in the six provinces, 50 in each, at an 

 average expense of $50 monthly, or $180,000. 

 Rental for new school rooms will average 

 $5 per month, or $18,000, and for the building 

 of new school houses for primarv instruction, 

 $20,000. 



According to Mario Garcia Kohly, Cuban 

 Minister to Spain, in an address delivered 

 recently at Madrid, Cuba to-day possesses 

 2,108 schools and 4,055 teachers. 



Money 



Order 



Treaty 



Annulled 



The postal money order 

 service between Cuba and 

 Mexico was discontinued 

 early in April for the reason 

 that while all Mexican money 

 orders were honored in Cuba, 

 the same treatment was not accorded Cuban 

 money orders sent to districts in control of 

 the rebels and in places still in the hands of 

 the Huerta government. This step was only 

 taken after all hope of ever getting a settle- 

 ment out of Mexico was given up. 



Mexico was supposed to make settlements 

 every three months, but it is now nine months 

 since any settlement has been made and the 

 balance in favor of Cuba is close to $50,000. 

 For a long time the Me.xican postal authori- 

 ties have ignored communications from the 

 Cuban government regarding the matter, 

 while people who bought orders in Havana 

 and sent them to friends in Mexico would 

 have them retmiied with the statement that 

 the orders were worthless because the post- 

 office of Mexico would not, or could not, pay 

 them. 



The Development and Electric Company 

 of Holguin, Oriente Province, proposes to 

 build an aqueduct for the town. 



Mr. Gustave SchoUs has been named First 

 Secretary of the American Legation in 

 Havana. Mr. Scholls was formerly at 

 Madrid. 



