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Show VENEZUELA HAS CASTRO WITH HER Doctor Declares Dictator of the Southern Republic, Is Not at Death's Door, as Reported. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Dispatchea to the Herald from La GuayTa, Venezuela, via Port of Spain, contain an interview in which the statement is made by Dr. Rafael Ravenga, secretary-general and personal physician to President Castro, that Castro's health will be fully restored re-stored in fifteen days and that within a month or leas he will be carrying on the administration of the Government. Dr. Ravenga denies that his patient ia suffering from tuberculosia or from the trouble which rumor haa charged. He maintains that he haa the fiebre paludica and a severe form o? gastric fever. The Herald 'a correspondent says he is compelled to say that there is nothing noth-ing at Macuto, where President Castro is soiourning, which would indicate that the Prejident of the country is at death's door, as some have maintained at Caracas. " |