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 16 I have also the honor to confirm the following telegram:

I am, sir, etc.,

Consul-General.

January 5, 1898.

The consul-general informs the Department that the Government of Cuba is not giving money in lieu of rations to starving people of the island.

Havana, January 5, 1898.

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the following cipher telegram:

And to confirm the following telegram:

I am, sir, etc.,

Consul-General.

Havana, January 8, 1898.

I have the honor to state, as a matter of public interest, that the "reconcentrado order" of General Weyler, formerly Governor-General of this island, transferred about 400,000 self-supporting people, principally women and children, into a multitude, to be sustained by the contributions of others or die of starvation or of fevers, resulting from a low physical condition, and being massed in large bodies, without change of clothing and without food.