THE CUBA REVIEW 



On OctoliL-r 22(1 an at- 



Gciii'ial t.nipt was made to assas- 



Uticna sinate Major-General Pino 



Attacked Uiierra, commander of the 



Cuban army. 



Gvniral Guerra was leaving the Pr-.'si- 

 dentiai Palace when he was shot in the 

 thigh and seriously wounded. A sentry 

 on guard at the palace gate also was siiot. 

 the l)u!ict striking him in the breast. 



The assailant, who was captured, proved 

 to be a mem!)er of the national secret 

 police. 



The cause of the murderous attack is 

 not known. 



Governor Magoon appointed General 

 Gucrra commander-in-chief of the armed 

 forccs of Cuba, and later, when the 

 command was divided and General Mon- 

 tcagudo was made commander of the rural 

 guard, with rank equal to that of Guerra, 

 a C(K)lness ensued between them. 



The court on Xovember IJd visited the 

 general at the Camp Columbia Hospital 

 to take his declaration, but he refused to 

 make any statement. 



On Xovember Gth he was reported as 

 improving. ]\Ir. Frank Steinhart, Vice- 

 President Zayas and Juan Gualberta 

 Gomez have been cited to testify in the 

 case, in consequence of an allegation that 

 the would-be assassin of (juerra is the 

 man who last year planned the assassina- 

 tion of Vice-President Zayas. 



The Xcii! York Herald said that Mr. 

 Steinhart's testimony on November loth 

 was that some time last year he had in- 

 formation of a plot to kill him, \'ice- 

 Prcsidtnt Zayas, Sr. San Miguel, the edi- 

 tor of La Liicha, and General Guerra; 

 and added that General Monteagudo, com- 

 mander of the rural guards, also knew of 

 the existence of the plot. 



President Gomez, Mr. Steinhart said, 

 promised to confer with General Montea- 

 gudo. 



Mr. Steinhart also said he believed that 

 Sr. San Miguel's life having been at- 

 tempted not long ago in the house of rep- 

 resentatives and General Guerra's very re- 

 cently, these two instances might be re- 

 lated. 



General Aleman and Sr. Gualberto Go- 

 iTiez, both prominent in politics, also testi- 

 fied, as well as Vice-President Zavas, and 

 although little of what they said w'as given 

 out, it is surmised that their statements 

 were similar to Mr. Steinhart's. 



On Xovember 12th the 



Monte Carlo senate unanimouslv ac- 



PJan ccpted a report of it's com- 



Rejccted mittee recommending the 



rejection of a bill passed 



by the house of representatives last 



June, givmg to an American syndicate a 



thirty years' concession to establish and 



run a Monte Carlo, a bull ring, a race- 

 track and cock pits in P>uena \'ista, a sub- 

 urb of Havana. When tlic bill i)assed tho 

 house, it was regarded as being practically 

 sure of passage in the senate by the group 

 of wealthy Americans i)ack of the project, 

 which included such well-known sporting 

 and E. F>urke of Xcw N'ork City, 

 men as W. Burbridge, George Considinc 

 In commenting on the rejection, Mr. 

 Considine said : "This news conies as a 

 great surprise to me. \\'e had good rea- 

 son to liclieve that the application would 

 l)e granted. We were ready to spend 

 $2,o;)(),UO(» to carr.v out our plans : we have 

 already spent a large part of that sum. I 

 have no doubt that whatever objections 

 are raised will be met, and that we will 

 get permission eventMally." 



General Demctrio Castillo, 

 //'/// chief of the Xational Prison 



Remain at Havana, who was civil 

 Quiet engineer of the province of 



Santiago when General 

 Wood was military governor, has found 

 notiiing in the United States which cannot 

 be attained in Cuba. He spent two weeks 

 in visiting American i)enai in-^titutions from 

 Xew York to Illinois, and although he ad- 

 mits that the tour was interesting, he saw- 

 nothing that Cuba will not duplicate in 

 time. 



"Cuba is i)rosperous." he said, "and Cuba 

 is quiet. Moreover, we will remain quiet. 

 The sugar crop was a bumper. All we 

 want now is to develop along our ow^n 

 lines. Onlv give us time.'" 



Major-General Pino Guerra, commander of 

 Cuba's permanent army. 



