MENOCAL TAKES OATH FOR NEW FOUR-YEAR TERM
Great Public Demonstration Marks
Inauguration of Re-Elected
President of Cuba.
REVIVO HIS ACHIEVEMENTS
Honors His Pledge to People to
Make of Republic a Strong Factor
in Latin-American Solidarity and
Cement Ties to United States.
(Special to The Times-Dispatch.)
HAVANA, May 20.?President Marino Garcia Menocal, of Cuba, took office again today for another four-year term, but inauguration, occurring on this, the Cuban national holiday, being attended by a great republic demonstration, in which the army, navy, diplomatic corps and the citizens of Cuba generally joined. Standing on the balcony of the presidential Palace, a historic building which formerly was the seat of the Spanish captains-general before the war of liberation, the President renewed his pledge to the Cuban people to make of Cuba a strong factor in Latin-American solidarity to cement the ties that bind her to her friend and ally, the United States; to afford full cooperation to Cuba's allies in the war against Germany, and to continue the constructive policies which the President reviewed as the record of his achievements of the past four years.
While guns boomed their salutes from the historic fortresses that crown the heights overlooking Havana's beautiful harbor, and while bands played and soldiers and sailors paraded down the Prado, past the statue of General Macto, to the  Part in front of the Palace, the Cuban people, stirred to patriotic thrills by the issues which link their country more closely to other belligerents in the world war, cheered for the President, for the welfare of the republic and for this holiday, the "Ventura de Mayo," which corresponds in Cuban history to the Fourth of July, in the United States. 