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Show CUBA'S SECRETARY TO VISIT ISIIiTOi Important Mission Said to Be Motive for Proposed Pro-posed Trip. HAVANA, March 13. Dr. Pablo Des Vernine, Cuban secretary of state, will leave tomorrow for New Tork and Washington Wash-ington on what is said to be an important import-ant mission. A statement given out late tonight at the palace says Dr. Des Vernine Is leaving leav-ing for Washington tp take up "divers matters connected with his department, some of them related to the present situation, situa-tion, ami will lay special emphasis on the campaign of defamation that is being waged by the revolutionary committee that has established itself in the city of New York under the protection of the laws of a neutral country, for the purpose of deliberately propagating the falsest kind of news In the press of the United Rafael Martinez Ibor, Cuban consul at Tampa, who preferred charges with the United States postofflce department against Dr. Orestes Ferrara and Dr. Cabrera, Ca-brera, now in New York, for violation of thav postal laws for the alleged sending through the United States malls of matter mat-ter reflecting on President Menocal. leaves with the party. It Is understood, however, how-ever, that he is returning to his post. The authorities have Issued an attachment attach-ment against the Jose Miguel Gomez estate, es-tate, amounting to more than a million dollars. According to Cuban law, a man convicted of crime, civil or criminal, may also be ad indued liable for damages and his property attached to make good the amount. Gomez is in the Presidio, facing charges of sedition and rebellion in connection with the present trouble in Cuba, the damages resulting therefrom having been so far appraised at $6,000,000. |