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Show Starvation in Torto "Rico. 'In the lait annual report of the secretary of tho Interior attention waa ca-led to the fact that the death rats In I'orto Itlco waa still high In ifferal placea notably In Tonce and Aijuntaa "The commoneet cause ot death" saya Secretary Hitchcock, "ap-pjirs "ap-pjirs to be anaemia, brought on by per nutrition and unaanlUry sur-rc-ndlngs." This statement la now corroborated with rather startling em-pMafs em-pMafs In a report by Surgeon Wll-liana, Wll-liana, one of the aialstants under the rt-ent military regime, In which ho sift that the moat harrowing stories trim Forto Itlco havo understated nther than exaggerated tbe truth He tdla ot laboring families, Industrious pnple, who were In a state of starvation starva-tion even during tbe Issue ot relief a'tppllei and who are now In a pltl-alle pltl-alle plight |