Among them are many citizens of the United States. Some idea of the extent of this calamitous condition is given by the reports which reach the Department from a single district. It is officially reported that there are in one provincial city alone some 4.000 necessitous refugees from the surrounding country to whom the municipal authorities can afford little or no relief. Over 300 of these are American citizens. engaged in prosperous farming and stock raisingat the beginning of the outbreak. whose employment and resources have been swept away by eighteen months of civil strife. reducing them from affluence to penury and throwing them upon the charity of an exhausted community in a devastated land. All these disastrous conditions. with the evils and disorders necessarily .following in their train. are interfering with the insular avenues of trade and very gravely impairing the business operations of Cuba.
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