Show tito the situation in havana Is 1 appalling lI havana avana juno june 21 extermination in the islands is an appalling fact tho the death rate is actually increasing A prominent spanish medical officer who has full knowledge of the interior says that should the war be prolonged fifteen months the western half of the island will be entirely de populated the death rate is likely to double rl next it mouth month contagion will then mow the people down rapidly the rains have turned the interior into quagmire re in many places the trocha is a pestilence estip ditch the soldiers are a r e a suffering u affer terribly from fever and da dysentery so it tery little ot the smallpox vac vaccination C ina ti on is effective thousands of pacifico cos might easily have been saved by vaccination if taken earlier |