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 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1911, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume IX 



OCTOBER, 1911 



Number 11 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



CUBA S NEW COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH SPAIN AMERICAN SAILORS 



WANTED POLITICAL FORCES WORKING HARD 



The Hon. Justo Garcia 

 Wants Velez, Cuban minister to 

 Cuban Spain, accompanied by JNIrs. 

 Treaty Garcia Velez, returned to 

 Havana October 2d on 

 board the "Alfonso XHL" Minister 

 Garcia Velez returns to Havana for a 

 short leave of absence and will try to re- 

 gain his health. 



Speaking of the negotiations for a com- 

 mercial treat}^ between Cuba and Spain, 

 Colonel Velez said : 



"Spain fulh^ realizes the value of the 

 Cuban market and wants to do everything 

 in her power to retain it, and it is believed 

 that a way toward a satisfactory arrange- 

 ment between the two countries will now 

 be easy." 



Negotiations with Spain for a commer- 

 cial treaty have been under way for nearly 

 two years. The great obstacle to a satis- 

 factory arrangement has been Spain's 

 refusal to make any concessions to Cuba 

 on tobacco. Spain has maintained that, 

 owing to monopoUes granted by her, it was 

 impossible to admit the Cuban leaf under 

 more favorable terms. The present traffic 

 is practically prohibitive. Spain was in 

 former years one of the heaviest importers 

 of Cuban tobacco, but has bought little 

 since the Spanish-American war. 



}ilinister Garcia said further that no com- 

 ment appeared over the recent deportation 

 bv Cuba of Spaniish citizens, as Spain 

 reaUzes that Cuba has the right to expel 

 from her territory the citizen of any 

 country whom • she considers undesirable. 



Col. " Garcia Velez says that the move- 

 ment in favor of the treaty in Spain is 

 very strong, that the people feel that Cuba 

 is a good market and that they want to 

 keep it and in order to bring about the 



treaty everything will be done to grant 

 whatever demands Cuba will make. 



Sale 

 of Old 

 Cannon 



By decree of Secretary of 

 the Interior Gerar lo Ma- 

 chado, it has been ordered 

 that a new public sale be 

 had of the old cannon and 

 balls as well as all the other unserviceable 

 war material scattered over the island and 

 abandoned by Spain. Historic pieces are 

 excepted. 



The first sale of these cannons took place 

 about nine months ago, and the contract 

 was awarded for $1.50 a ton. This sale 

 was annulled, however. It appeared that 

 what Cabrera was buying for "old iron" 

 was in most cases brass cannons which 

 would have been cheap at $150 a ton and 

 also because the proceedings in awarding 

 the sale were not altogether open and above 

 board. Secretary of State Sanguily, who 

 was at that time ■ acting secretary of the 

 Interior, asked for an investigation, with 

 the result that the contract and sale were 

 rescinded. 



The first vessels for Cuba's new navy 

 were launched at the Cramp ship yard in 

 Philadelphia October 10th in the presence 

 of the secretary of the Cuban navy, the 

 four daughters of Cuba's president and 

 other high officials from that country. The 

 vessels are the protected cruiser "Cuba' 

 and the "Patria," a training ship. 



Miss Marianna Gomez christened the 

 "Cuba," and the "Patria" received its name 

 at the hands of Miss Narcia Gomez. 



The cruiser "Cuba" is 260 feet long and 

 will carry two 4-inch guns and a number 

 of other guns of smaller calibre. 



