The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-09
Spain to. Send Sixteen Thou
sand Troops This Month.
SIXTY THOUSAND GO LATER.
Patriots Captured Bearing Arms Are
10 Be Shot Like Dogs.
Inc spanish send Reports of Victories
Over the Brave Cabans. but Com
vict Themselves of Lying by Ask
ing Reinforcements.


month reinforcemenTs Of Is.te0 men Will
leave Spain eor Cuba. and turing the
month or October and the early part of
November additional reinforcemeats 10
the number .. e0.ao0 troops will be sent
from Spain 10 Cuba. All the steamers of
the different Spanish lines viii be char
sered by the government in order 10 SEND
the troops here.
Capt. Gen. Martinez Campos has issued
8 proclamation saying that all Insurgents
captured with arms In their possession
will hereafter be summarily tried BY
court-martial aid shot Those who con-
spire against the integrity of the nation
VIII be sent 10 the African prisons. and
those who surrender will be released.
At Macagua, near Matanzas. an insur-
gent band consisting Of about thirty men
has plundered AID burned three stores.
Gems. Saleedo and Bazan. while out
securing the fields near Yatras. had a
skirnish with the insurgents. who left
ten dead upon the field. On the side of
the troops two soldiers were iSIlled and
six wounded. Gen. Navarro had an en-
gagement with the Seuzas hand of in
surgents at Borji. Santiago de Cuba. The
insurgents lost two killed left two
wounded behind them, and in addition the
Spanish troops captured two prisoners.
Havana, July "A severe engagement
has taken place between the Spanish
and Gen. Ant oE.o Maceo's large force.
Two hundred and eighty Of the later were
killed.
II appears that Mai. Sanchez received
information that a force of 1850 inSur-
gents under the command of Rahi had
occupied strong positions near Manzan-
lilo. province of Santiago de Cuba The
major sent messenger to his superior
officer. Col. Aura, proposing to him that
they should join their forces and make
an attack upon the insurgents. The mess
enger, however. fell into the hands of the
insurgents. who hanged him and sent
word to Mai. Sanchez in the name OF Col.
Aura 10 make an attack on the insur-
gent position from a point which COM
pelled the troops to approach the insur-
gents through a narrow thoroughfare.
Maj Sanchez, recognizing the difficulty
of the movement which he was apparent
ly directed by his colonel to execute, sent
forward two advance pickets of twelve
and thirty men respectively. under the
command of sergeants. with instructions
TO push forward to the right and 10 the
left Of the narrow passage. far removed
from them. and be careful to take UP adj
vantageous positions from which they
could protect the advance of the main
body of the troops under Sanchez's COM
mand. The sergeants cleveriy followed
out the instructions. Mai. Sanchez then
position. protecting his men by every IN
equality of the ground. But, as he ex-
pected. the troops were 10 sooner inside
the defile than the insurgents attacked
them in force. The first charge of the
insurgents was made with enthusiasm
and their machetes played havoc among
the troops, who were hemmed in and un-
able to deploy on account of the narrow
road they had to follow. But II was here
that the two advance pickets under the
two sergeants came to the rescue. From
their elevated position they kept up
continuous firing upon the insurgents
within range, and eventually assisted by
a charge from the Spanish troops, COM
PEELED the patriotS to retreat outside of
the defle. The Spanish rushed forward
after them. and, once in the open, they
charged the rebels with great courage
and compelled them TO retreat hastily.
The insurgents then sought refuge In
strong position they had previously left
in order to attack the troops, but the
soldiers carried the positions and put the
enemy to flight with the loss upon the
field of 2So killed. The troops lost nfty
men killed and wounded.
II was at first reported that the insur-
gents rwere commanded by Gen. Maceo.
but ii was later learned they were under
Rabi alone and that Naceo took no part
In the engagement.
washington CITY. July S-Ine last d1-
vices received by the state department
from Cuba relative TO Sanguiliy and Au-
gere, the naturalized citizens who have
been under arrest there several months
on charges Of completely in the rebellion.
are to the effect that they are now under
trial, which may be long drawn out. not
withstandng the fact that in al least one
case the proceedings are civil as well as
criminal and political However. as fair
progress is being made according 10 the
Spanish practice, and as the men have the
best of counsel, their cases being closely
watched by the American consul gem
eral. the state department Is not disposed
to make this matter of complaint.
Santiago, July Seen. Antonio Maceo Is
now. according to reports from Spanish
sources. hemmed in between FL Cobre and
Ramanganguaz threatened on one side by
the force OF Spanish Gen. Gasro and on
the other by the Spanish columns of Ma
varro.
New York July S.-The Cuban election
for successor IN Marti was practically
decided today in favor of Tomas Estrada
Palma The delegates in the principal
large cities Of the United States and
Mexico represent thousands Of votes in
their respective states. Their rl7oice as
announced by telegraph today was that
the delegates are all one way for Palma
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