. The Cuba review and bulletin. n the final outcime of Mr. Homes experiments will be made In a later number ofTHE CUBA REVIEW and Bulletin. THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. THE GUARDIA RURAL OF CUBA. Its Beginning During the First Intervention—Its Steady DevelopmentUnder American Instruction to its Present Perfection. to be known as the Rural Guard, actingunder immediate orders of the separate De-partment Commanders, and being paid fromthe Cuban Treasury. The total strength ofthis separate Rural Guard force was 1,208men. This condition existed until January i,1901, when, by direction of the Milit
. The Cuba review and bulletin. n the final outcime of Mr. Homes experiments will be made In a later number ofTHE CUBA REVIEW and Bulletin. THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. THE GUARDIA RURAL OF CUBA. Its Beginning During the First Intervention—Its Steady DevelopmentUnder American Instruction to its Present Perfection. to be known as the Rural Guard, actingunder immediate orders of the separate De-partment Commanders, and being paid fromthe Cuban Treasury. The total strength ofthis separate Rural Guard force was 1,208men. This condition existed until January i,1901, when, by direction of the MilitaryGovernor (Gen. Wood), a board of selectedRural Guard officers from the separateprovinces, with Major (then Captain) H. , chairman of the Board, and rep-resenting the Military Governor, was con-vened for a reorganization. The force as reorganized by this boardand approved by the Military Governor, wasas follows : I Brigadier General, Commander, I Lieutenant Colonel, Inspector, I Lieutenant Colonel, Adjutant General,. Gen. Rodriguez, Commanding the Rural Guardof Cuba. THE following is a brief official historyof the Rural Guard establishmentfrom January i, 1899, the day theAmerican Government first took possessionof the island of Cuba: The island was at this time divided intosix United States military departments:Santiago, under General Wood; PuertoPrincipe, under Gen. Bates ; ^Nlatanzas andSanta Clara, under Gen. Wilson, and Ha-vana and Pinar del Rio^ under Gen. Lee;Gen. Ludlow being in command of thecity of Havana and Gen. Brook command-ing the division, with headquarters atHavana. The Spanish Government had on theisland an irregular military force knownas Guardia Civil, whose duty was to sup-port the civil authorities throughout therural districts, preserving peace and pro-tecting property. It was a semi-militaryorganization under the Spanish Governor-General. It was this force that the RuralGuard was intended to relieve of its duties;the American forces merely sup
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