Cuba.

Manawatu Herald, 2 August 1898, Page 3

Cuba.

Mr Richard Davey in an article io the Fortnightly Review concludes bis article with the following pregnant passage : — Meanwhile, the English and tha American press, or a certain section of it. have exaggerated matters just as they did in tbe case of the Armenian horrors two years ago. The Cubans are not all angels, any more than the Spaniards are all fiends. Of this v;e may bs sure. 400,000 people have not been killed or starved to death in Cuba — for the total population is only about 1,500,---000. Taking the distressful state of the island into confederation, we can not doubt that many thousands nf people have died of want and fever but certainly not more than 75,000. I do not believe that the United States. wish to annex Cuba; if such an event did come to pass the Americans would soon be at loggerheads with the Cubans, by no means an easy people to manage at any time, and quite incapable, I am convinced, of an amicable understanding with tho practical and pushing Yankees. Possibly by tbe time these pages are in print this fact may he verified. lam perfectly certain that' when the war, now apparently im* minent, is actually declared, this beautiful island will soon recall, only too forcibly, the famous story of the cats ofJCilkenny — not r-ven their tails will be left to tell the tale of anarchy massacre, and woe."