| Show A MILLION DEAD i nearly nely that number of cubans killed terrible policy polley of extermination mi nation has sent to premature graves thousands of innocent Pe persons rions new york nov 29 A dispatch dia to the irom from havana says the worlds first prot figures of cubas starvation were timidly moderate they showed the death of only but every painful fact unearthed t tenda ends to prove them nearly double that number when the grim returns are all in it is now almost certain that this cuban massacre of the innocent innocents will reach and this awful number doea does not include those killed in battle or the thousand thoua and it and thousands of women and children who have died of 0 exposure disease and massacre in the swamps it now seems certain that more than ball half a trillion people for the most part loyal subjects of span spa n have been killed by the spanish war in cuba A weeks trip through the provinces of havana matanzas Matan and santa clara baa has tended to make moderate this tremendous extreme figure the figures of Sp spanish arlish official report reports show but a part of the mortality morta lily they only give the number burgea in consecrated around abey do not give that fully and yet these ultra spanish reports of burial permits issued admits that in to the province ot of santa clara there have died and been buried ince since fist fiat person persons the number of people for or whose existence weyler is directly responsible I 1 is 8 IE in santa clara province and of these be he has killed or over one half balf of them santa clara hao ba so 0 far been by tar far the least destitute of provisions provi eions it has many cattle and not a very thick population between KB its 53 per cent dead to pinar dl dai bio rio admitted ire are the province ot of matanzas Matan zae and havana with a 60 or 70 per cent mortality r respectively these percentages are established now by the actual figures in or rue thirty cities and toane applied to the Venser populations of their respective provinces ahe lie total deaths sine Wey lere bando will toot foot up nearly a million |
