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THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN COMMERCIAL MATTERS 



REGULATIONS FOR CODE MESSAGES 



According to a statement given out by the 

 cable company on October 30 in Havana the 

 situation there is as follows: 



"The British administration has relaxed, 

 as from November 1st, the prohibition against 

 the use of code subject to the following regu- 

 lations : 



"1. The use of code will only be permitted 

 in cablegrams to and from the United King- 

 dom of Great Britain and Ireland. 



"2. The following codes are authorized: 

 A. B. C. Fifth Edition. 

 Scott's Code Tenth Edition. 

 Western Union Code 

 Lieber's Code. 



"Messages in private code or in any other 

 unrecognized code will be stopped. 



"3. Neither private supplements, nor the 

 numerical equivalents of the phases in pub- 

 hshed codes are admissible. It should be 

 remembered that groups or series of numbers 

 and similar expressions (e. g. prices of stock) 

 are not necessarily admissible because they 

 appear in code. If the decode would not 

 have passed the censors neither will the coded 

 message be passed. 



"4. All messages in code will be decoded 

 for submission to the censors. Every effort 

 will be made to avoid delay in this operation. 



"5. In all cases the name of the code must 

 be wa-itten on the form. 



"No charge will be made for the transmis- 

 sion of the name of the code." 



CUBA AND CANADA 



The value of the exports to and imports 

 from Canada during the last nine fiscal years 

 are officially stated to be as follows: 



Fiscal Years. Imports Exports 



1903-04 $418,434 $519,807 



1904-05 942,742 454,135 



1905-06 1,378,111 635,188 



1906-07 1,269,228 749,416 



1907-08 1,468,367 740,386 



1908-09 1,429,294 276,044 



1909-10 1,737,763 1,096,738 



1910-11 1,522,493 1,139,140 



1911-12 1,723,315 1,526,791 



HAVANA'S CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS 



October's custom house collections at 

 Havana compare as follows: 



1914 $1,550,439 



1913 1,941,320 



1912 1,739,174 



1911 1,647,752 



1910 1,308,242 



1909 1,452,828 



1908 1,469,084 



1907 1,669,234 



CUBA'S NEW YORK PURCHASES 



The value and character of the exports 

 from New York to Cuba exclusive of bread- 

 stuffs, crude materials, etc., for the four 

 weeks ending October 27th, are shown in the 

 following table: 



Axle grease $207 



Bacon 113,338 



Belting 22,785 



Books 12,324 



Cotton seed oil 62,097 



Candles 3,630 



Confectionery 8,224 



Canned Fish 11,869 



Canned fruits 5,521 



Canned goods 2,119 



Canned meats 2,898 



Condensed milk 42,629 



Canned vegetables 8,103 



Crucibles 176 



Cartridges and ammunition 5,937 



Household goods •. . 300 



India rubber goods 32,519 



Ink 3,623 



Jewelry 344 



Lamp goods 8,376 



Leather 36,746 



Lumber 18,008 



Lubricating oil 31,745 



Manufactures of iron 296,495 



Manufactiu-es of brass 8,609 



Manufactures of copper 14,841 



Manufactures of metal 8,638 



Manufactures of paper 67,565 



Manufactures of steel 97,969 



Manufactures of wood 18,824 



Oilcloth 3,543 



Paints 41,132 



Perfumery 3,404 



Platedware 1,929 



Rope 10,665 



Stationery 15,762 



Steel rails 49,316 



Tinware 1,164 



Tobacco manufactured 8,750 



Toys 651 



Twine 974 



Varnish 920 



Mr. G. A. Martyn, for several years man- 

 ager of the Guantanamo branch of the Nat- 

 tional Bank of Cuba, has resigned that posi- 

 tion to take the one of Comptroller for the 

 Guantanamo & Western Railroad, the Santa 

 Cecilia Sugar Company, the La Maya Valley 

 Company and the Confluente Sugar Company 

 with headquarters at Guantanamo. 



Marimon, Bosch & Company, of Santiago 

 and Guantanamo, are planting 1,000 acres 

 more cane at their Sabanilla estate. 



