Deseret Evening News | 1897-11-19 | Page 4 | Cubans Starving to Death

mi INS vrvuviMi TO iiriru The situation In Cuba If reports are not exaggerated now demands tho attention at-tention of the civilized world and par tlcularl of the United States In one province alone Matnnzas 127OdO persons I per-sons are reiwrtcd as having been kllkdnot In war on the battlefield I nor by roving bands of Insurgents t They wero starved to death they stern the peaceful rural population compelled to live In General Wejlers rcneroutionn whro no food wa rn aided for them and they were slovvlj tortured id death b > the awful pangs of hunger most of the victims being women and Inoeenl cbllolrn It rein Incredible that the Christian world lat much longer cnluro him torles ot butchery of too ocentt on the fair Isle I It Is I gratifying that Central Hlanci gives I aimurnmes that the alcllms 01 his predeceiwor lollcy will be taken care of and provided with food but oomcthing wore than promiecn I are now needed Ihero Is a growing pelilltnen In this country that the blood of the i Cuban victim will leave an indelible I 1ln on tho nnnal of American hi tory