America and Spain.
THE AMERICAN TROOPS IN A TERRIBLE PLIGHT. Typhoid is prevalent in the American camp at Santiago. General Shafter telegraphed to the authorities here that over 75 per cent of those who had malarial fever are recovering slowly. The army, however, is unfit to stand the attack of yellow fever or dysentery owing to the 20 days hard campaigning gone through with only meat, bread and coffee for food, and without a change of clothing or shelter. The recent arrivals, he added, were quite well. Roosevelt, in a letter to General Shafter, said, to keep the troops at Santiago would involve the "destruction of thousands, who would die like rotten sheep if the yellow fever obtained a hold in the camps. In connection with the peace negotiations the Spaniards talk of claiming the remains of Columbus interred at Havana Cathedral. General Shafter reports that 412 fresh cases of malarial fever^have
occurred among the American troops at Santiago.
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Manawatu Herald, 11 August 1898, Page 2
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159America and Spain. Manawatu Herald, 11 August 1898, Page 2
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