LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 



BOTAINJCAL 

 GARDEN 



THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Cojiyright, 19S2, by the Munton Steamthip Line 



Volume XX 



OCTOBER, 1922 



Number 11 



Cuban Government Matters 



General Armando Montes 



Secretary of War and Navy 



Gen. Armando Montes, the new Secre- 

 tary of War and Navy Department, was 

 born on the estate "Alianza," San Nicolas, 

 and during his boyhood attended school at 

 the Theological Seminary of the Esco- 

 lapios in Guanabacoa. He was graduated 

 from the Institute of Havana in 1896. 



When the V/ar of 1895 broke out, Armando 

 Montes enlisted to fight for Cuban Inde- 

 pendence as a private, saying, "I do not 

 seek military rank. All I desire is to be 

 a soldier to fight for Cuba." He was in 

 Gen. Aguirre's column. 



He also served under Rafael de Cardenas 

 and Adolfo del Castillo. At the end of the 

 war he entered the National Police Corps 

 and remained in that department up to 

 1903. Thence he passed to the Rural 

 Guard with the rank of captain until 1908, 

 when he became Aide de Camp of Capt. 

 Frank Parker, now Gen. Parker. Within 

 six months he had organized a batallion of 

 infantry at Camp Columbia. 



To perfect himself in military tactics, he 

 entered a regiment of cavalry in the United 

 States Army, and discharged several com- 

 missions. Later, upon his return to Cuba, 

 he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and 

 assigned to the General Staff of the Cuban 

 Army. 



He took charge of the Military Academy 

 for Cadets in the Morro Castle, and after- 

 wards was promoted to the rank of general. 

 Not yet fifty. Gen. Montes is a man who 

 has made great strides in his profession. 

 A pet scheme of his is to establish a school 

 for officers' orphans and thus reward those 

 who gave their lives for their country by 

 looking out for their children. 



Gen. Montes retired from the army upon 

 taking charge of his office as Secretary' of 

 War and Navy of the Republic of Cuba. 



