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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9156, 28 September 1898, Page 4

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.■■■:.■' «:.' i i*..,sJ. r* >. r ~ ~. »-.•,, i.. r .,.,/,;.• JLrLci AMmtiUAIM xCJjj rMS UJi. Despite- the/enormoua expenditure for the • 'warj .'■ the income of. the Treasury Department of the United , States inpreaeed to such an extent that there will within six months be a very large surplus, unless Gongreae provides for extraordinary ' i expenses. < The President has a difficult tusk in quieting the public clamors against certain members ?of *the rofficial housohold, notably; the Secretary for War, Mr Alger, whose inefficiency has beeh painfully evident, aiid whose; honesty has been called in question by both Press and peopjo(!0 ( (?|":t .; THE EEOENT WAE. ' "

The battles in the late war cost comparatively few lives, but • misraanage* montinthe cainphoepitale reaped a rioh harvest'bf 'death," Hundreds of ; the ! BonsCof: weathy and prominent ' families allege they were starved in the camps, the transports , bringingthein . weafcand fieldfin Ojibaand-Potf*) . General' Miles, thei OommanSer io ■,\ Ohiofjigayeutteranoelin'Portoßico-to .... Buch>)^itterrcriticiqai8 >iof as ': might have earned him a court martial, the Seopary of $ar .'dared-aot. open'the queetibnV-'"^,.i.-:fi I v.., J,ft;V- . " .' At Havana posters ware '. circulated exhorting Unlesthey Were v paid iniuU,.-jMany,had not .been paid for fifteen months, ;■•; • Spain made a propositioni to admit , at' Havana, ;free a million, rations' for the starving peoplo, , . provided the Spanish officials distributed the same or allowed, the. Americaiis to distribute if the were paidi./The Administration decided not to. allow the Spaniards' to handle ■-'the supplies as a consideration for paying duty. ./•■;•. CfarpiaJias been , removed rrom com-' mand .by.: the Ottban 1 : Junta for Shaffen Although Havana is not yet evacuated byi!the"!Spaniards) thV-Ouban^Kave 1 named their civil authorities and issued a prpciamation as follows :—The war is ended.. ,Theindependence of ; Ouba,. the 'aim' ; bjl-ourVfevolutionJ.'ie .a , fact. The victory Kained,-'in'.,the" heroic struggle w^uld ' be lost 1 ' if we . did not prdolaim as the fundam'eh'tal principals of; ;our!,s;natidnaUfy' v charmoay ,! and' ! fraternity among.the:Oiibans.f Let us prdceep);.tog§ther,to.ward the : reconn ebructionpf our beloved-Ouba, ~