The Red Cross : in peace and war . CAPTAIN C. D. SIGSBE^ CUBA AND THE CUBAN CAMPAIGN. 537 I saw no house or hut in the 400 miles of railroad rides from Pinar del RioProvince in the west across the full widtli of Havana and Matanzas Provinces, andto Sagua La Grando on the north shore and to Cieufuegos on the south shore ofSanta Clara, except within the Spanish trochas. There are no domestic animals orcrops on the rich fields and pastures except such as are under guard in the imme-diate vicinity of the towns. In other words, the Spaniards hold in these four western provinces just whattheir army
The Red Cross : in peace and war . CAPTAIN C. D. SIGSBE^ CUBA AND THE CUBAN CAMPAIGN. 537 I saw no house or hut in the 400 miles of railroad rides from Pinar del RioProvince in the west across the full widtli of Havana and Matanzas Provinces, andto Sagua La Grando on the north shore and to Cieufuegos on the south shore ofSanta Clara, except within the Spanish trochas. There are no domestic animals orcrops on the rich fields and pastures except such as are under guard in the imme-diate vicinity of the towns. In other words, the Spaniards hold in these four western provinces just whattheir army sits on. Every man, woman and child and every domestic animal, wherever theircolumns have reached, is under guard and within their so-called fortifications. Todescribe one place is to describe all. To repeat, it is neither peace nor war. It is concentration and desolation. This is the pacified condition of thefour western provinces. All the country people in the four western provinces, about 400,000 in number,remaining outside the
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