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Show EPIDEMICS DECIMATE PEONS. Starvation and Distress Stalk 0.' Southern Republic. El Paso. The starvation and c tress reported among the native r ulation of the Mexican state of S-: ora can hardly equal the cor.-.!;:, that prevail in the state of Cluhuah-Coahuila Cluhuah-Coahuila and Durango, according J. W. Newcome, a British doctor n journalist, who until recently- serin ser-in a semi-official capacity ofr the 0 ranza government in northern Mi v. Newcome added that the few E" pean physicians left in northern M: Ico report widespread epidemics penumonia and typhoid among v lower classes, -while the death r: from tuberculosis is rapidly incre: ing. Typhus fever, he said, wast generally prevalent in northern stst; Newcome also declared that he ? sonally saw many victims of lfPr: roaming at will. 1 |