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Show IHT AFFAIIID IN CUDaT i Awftt D tllollon I'retallf and aafttrlnl New York, May 16, Among th Cuban refugem on board the llritUb teamahlp Htrathdee, which haaarrlri1 hero from Hagua, Cuba, naa a furniri urgeon In the Hpanlah army of Cuban birth who, with hla fellow Cuban wai I compelled to realgn from the army at tho beginning of tho war. Aa ho left a mother and titter In llarana, he doei not, for obrloua reaaona, with to hart hit name mentioned in connection with a ttory glrlng Information of tho con dltlon of the Hpanlah line. The refugee left Cuba thirteen dan ago. At that tlma there wira to ouo Hpanlah aoldlera and 40,000 rotunteeri In llarana The fortification wen being elrcngthcm-d by addition ol tone, rock, etc , In which cannon hart been mounted which,' It I claimed, hare a rangoof twolre mllea. Kortlfl cation haro liren ralaed to repel a land a wrll a a aea attack. All Ilia hotpltal and tha atrium al well are crowded with Hpanlah tick The fond and the medicine left by the American for Uie reconcentradotharc been aelred by tho Spaniard. The Kngllth conaul haa tho key of Ihe lorrhoutr. but the aoldlcr broke lh door and aelred what they liked, gen erally rrapectlng anything marked red croaa. Wlill yellow fererlapreratenl, It la not no much o a alodlamo, a Cuban malarial fercr. The orphanage In llarana known al tho (leneral Lee orphanage atrium and aanltarlum, and aomo other atylumi for children, hare had protection and auppltea for four montha. (leneral I,co'a name had to lie remored from the door of the aaylum by order of th authorities. Clara llarton'a homo In llarana la protectod by troops. Al Matanta tho refngeea learned that n few aoldlera had been killed by tho bombardment, but that th de-fente de-fente ufftrcd llttlo damago and haro been repaired. The Monttcrrat landed at Clenfugo 1,000 men, aercral ararchllght, much artillery and 400,000 pceta In atlrer. It wa not until the refugee arrlred here that they learned tho truth about Manila, a tho llarana paper hara published tho engagement aa a Hpanlah rlctory |