Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — DIE FROM HUNGER. [ARTICLE]

DIE FROM HUNGER.

Frightful Mortality Among the Reconcentrados in Cnba. It appears now that nearly 75 f>er cent of the 400,000 helpless women, children and non-combatants in Cuba affected by former Captain General Weyler’s policy are dead. Despite the orders issued by Gen. Blanco to feed the starving, the daily mortality of the remaining “reconcentrados” is frightful. The rabid Spaniards, who believe that only by extermination of the race can the Cuban war be won, openly challenge the good faith of Gen. Blanco’s statements as to his intention to feed and find work for those whom Gen. Weyler has not killed. They jubilantly claim that the new captain general is enforcing the barbarous “concentration” of the country people exactly as his predecessor did. The Havana press no longer printa the news from the small towns. In one of the last articles upon the hunger situation it was called “one of the most awful spectacles ever presented to humanity.”