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Show Race Issue Raised In Caba. The race issue of Cuba has been raised lately in a peculiar way by a large number of Havana negroes and mulattoes. They have petitioned the authorities to prohibit the application to Cuban citizens of the descriptive words "black" or "brown" in warrants war-rants issued by the police court and to forbid the use of these adjectives in newspaper reports. The petitioners also ask that the newspapers be prohibited pro-hibited from making reference to the African origin of any one. Their argu- . x ment is that the terms as now used perpetuate race antagonisms, and that since the negroes of Cuba have proved their worth in the struggle against Spain they should be called only Cuban citizens. |